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Suburban Warrior

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Thu Jun 21, 2018, 07:33 PM Jun 2018

Cambridge Analytica employee claims they had Clinton's emails a month before WL released them

Then there’s Cambridge Analytica. The (now shuttered) British company did the Trump campaign’s data. Its speciality was ‘microtargeting’: individual messages tailored to individual voters, delivered by email, Facebook and Twitter. The US intelligence agencies believe that Russian internet ‘troll factories’ were also pushing out pro-Trump propaganda on social media: sometimes fake news, sometimes real news, such as the hacked contents of Clinton’s emails. The question is whether this was done in coordination with the Trump campaign. An American lawyer I know told me that he was approached by a Cambridge Analytica employee after the election. They had had the Clinton emails more than a month before they were published by WikiLeaks: ‘What should I do?’ Take this to Mueller, the lawyer replied.

The entire article can be read here:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/what-does-the-british-government-know-about-trump-and-russia/

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Cambridge Analytica employee claims they had Clinton's emails a month before WL released them (Original Post) Suburban Warrior Jun 2018 OP
What 'Clinton' emails? Crabby Appleton Jun 2018 #1
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