MIAMI — One day in late May 2016, Roger Stone — the political dark sorcerer and longtime confidant of Donald Trump — slipped into his Jaguar and headed out to meet a man with a… Read More
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Trump 2020 working with ex-Cambridge Analytica staffers
WASHINGTON (AP) — A company run by former officials at the scandal-scarred consulting firm Cambridge Analytica is working for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort. The Associated Press has confirmed that at least four ex-#Cambridge… Read More
MPs call for police to investigate Arron Banks’ links to Russia | Politics | The Guardian
MPs are calling for the police and parliament to investigate the links between the millionaire #Brexit donor Arron Banks and the Russian government, after it emerged that he met the Kremlin’s ambassador to the UK… Read More
Cambridge Analytica director ‘met Assange to discuss US election’
A Cambridge Analytica director apparently visited Julian Assange in February last year and told friends it was to discuss what happened during the US election, the Guardian has learned. Brittany Kaiser, a director at the… Read More
Mueller has gotten witnesses to turn over their phones so his team can access encrypted messages: report
Special counsel Robert Mueller has successfully gotten multiple witnesses in his probe to turn over their phones so that he and his team can have access to messages that they sent and received over encrypted… Read More
Paul Manafort tried to hide from the feds using encrypted WhatsApp—but he forgot about iCloud — Quartz
Special counsel Robert Mueller has accused Donald Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort of witness tampering. Manafort allegedly tried to hide his communications with potential witnesses using the encrypted messaging apps WhatsApp and Telegram, but… Read More
Facebook’s data sharing with Chinese companies concerns Washington
Mark Zuckerberg survived questions about Russia’s election-meddling largely unscathed. But the N.Y. Times’ revelation that Facebook knowingly granted four Chinese electronics companies (including Huawei, which U.S. intelligence officials see as a potential national security threat)… Read More
What Facebook’s New Political Ad System Misses
Facebook announced a new system to make political ads more transparent. It’s got holes. by Jeremy B. Merrill, Ariana Tobin, and Madeleine Varner Facebook’s long-awaited change in how it handles political advertisements is only a… Read More