Cambridge Analytica: links to Moscow oil firm and St Petersburg university

[Fulcrum]

Cambridge Analytica helped with the Brexit campaign, Trump is friends with their CEO Robert Mercer, CA has also helped out Trump and now they've been linked to Russian businesses. Nothing out right incriminating but it does highlight the issue of opaque private firms with no loyalties, political ties, too much influence and questionable agendas.

offtopic: posting news on this newpunch is sorta ugly

[Crumpets]

Watched this earlier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=FXdYSQ6nu-M

Gross undermining of democracy

[hexpunK]

It's good all these stories about Cambridge Analytica are finally coming out. They've been a consistent thorn in the side of Democracy and the spread of information for a while now.

Re: uggo news posts:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-academic-trawling-facebook-had-links-to-russian-university

Paste the link, let newpunch parse it, then click it and you get the "embed" option.