Directors at the company instructed staff to use data provided by hackers, and in two cases in 2015 employees refused using such materials, the Guardian reports
21 March 2018
HAARETZ — Israeli hackers offered Cambridge Analytica, the data collection firm that worked on U.S. President Donald Trump’s election campaign, material on two politicians who are heads of state, the Guardian reported Wednesday, citing witnesses.
According to the report, the hackers obtained the materials by hacking the private email accounts of the two politicians.
Executives at Cambridge Analytica – including CEO Alexander Nix – instructed the staff to use the materials provided by the hackers in election campaigns in Nigeria and St. Kitts and Nevis, citing multiple sources.
According to the report, in Cambridge Analytica employees met Israeli cybersecurity contractors at their London office. The Israelis reportedly gave them a USB stick containing what they said were hacked emails. The employees were told to search the data for incriminating material that could be used to damage the opponent of then-Nigeria President Jonathan Goodluck, who hired the firm. Goodluck lost the election to Opposition Leader Muhammadu Buhari. […]
interesting piece in UK magazine Private Eye 6th April edition on spooky pink haired Mr Wylie, who has had an interesting few years of data wrangling and selling before the relaunch as a ‘whistle Blower’
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Yasmin Green, director of research for Jigsaw (Google), is talking at TED (NWO) 2018. Also serves as a senior advisor to Oxford Analytica.
https://ted2018.ted.com/program
Jigsaw has made such gems as:
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