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Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Says Data From 87 Million Users Could Be Stored In Russia (cnn.com)
PolygamousRanchKid shares a report from CNN: Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie says the data the firm gathered from Facebook could have come from more than 87 million users and could be stored in Russia. Wylie added that his lawyer has been contacted by U.S. authorities, including congressional investigators and the Department of Justice, and says he plans to cooperate with them. Aleksander Kogan, a Russian data scientist who gave lectures at St. Petersburg State University, gathered Facebook data from millions of Americans. He then sold it to Cambridge Analytica, which worked with President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. "I know that Facebook is now starting to take steps to rectify that and start to find out who had access to it and where it could have gone, but ultimately it's not watertight to say that, you know, we can ensure that all the data is gone forever," he said.
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We don't have any proof or evidence of anything so we're just going to throw any hypothetical Russian connection we can against the wall.
Well, sure. Because people who do much less than what she did in the way of mishandling classified information, lying about it, destroying records under subpoena and the like ... go to jail. So, yes, she should have been locked up. Because she did things that required prosecution and conviction, and people far less guilty get exactly that treatment. This, as opposed to the phony "collusion" narrative being pitched by her camp in yet another way to try to explain away her election loss.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
We just need to adjust to the fact that there are at least two sets of rules: one for the elites, one for the plebs.
Hillary is in the elites - the rules don't apply to her. You are a pleb, behave yourself or you'll be beaten to death by a mall cop for loitering.
Shadowy villains and conspiracy stories? People have already been charged and have PLEADED GUILTY.
You're right I'm sure we're all imagining it
Yes, because a plea bargain could never indicate a victim of coercion, only a guilty person ever takes a plea. Its never about the cost and uncertainty of a trial; the uncertainty of the entire government against what you can afford in terms of legal representation and investigation/discovery.
If Trump's name didn't somehow get attached to this story, the Cambridge Analytica whistle blower would have been only a small blip on the landscape of the news media.
Attach Trump or Putin name to any story, however dry or souped up it may be, and the media will immediately pick and run with it.
I find it hilarious that Democrats started hating Russians approximately the moment they stopped being communist.