Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's collection of Facebook data

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Craig Timberg, Karla Adam and Michael Kranish
Washington Post

Conservative strategist Steve Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's early efforts to collect troves of Facebook data as part of an ambitious program to build detailed profiles of millions of American voters, a former employee of the data-science firm said Tuesday.

The 2014 effort was part of a high-tech form of voter persuasion touted by the company, which under Bannon identified and tested the power of anti-establishment messages that later would emerge as central themes in President Donald Trump's campaign speeches, according to Chris Wylie, who left the company at the end of that year ...

More than three years before he served as Trump's chief political strategist, Bannon helped launch Cambridge Analytica with the financial backing of the wealthy Mercer family as part of a broader effort to create a populist power base. Earlier this year, the Mercers cut ties with Bannon after he was quoted making incendiary comments about Trump and his family.

In an interview Tuesday with The Washington Post at his lawyer's London office, Wylie said that Bannon — while he was a top executive at Cambridge Analytica and head of Breitbart News — was deeply involved in the company's strategy and approved spending nearly $1 million to acquire data, including Facebook profiles, in 2014 ...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-bannon-cambridge-analytica-facebook-20180320-story.html

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1. ... New Jersey's top law enforcement officer has launched an investigation

after reports that a British data analysis firm captured information from 50 million Facebook users without their consent.

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said Tuesday that his office was investigating how personal information came into the possession of Cambridge Analytica. New York and Massachusetts officials have also said they are launching a joint investigation ...

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched a joint investigation Saturday after reports that British data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica captured information from 50 million Facebook users without their consent. The firm is tied to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign ...

A group of consumer-advocacy organizations is pressing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook's role in the use of personal data by a political research firm tied to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump ...

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article205979364.html

[backtoblue]

2. The oligarch billionaires infiltrated our democracy and elections

They put themselves in governmental power to self serve their evil ideologies for the world. The good thing is that they're being exposed. Now we'll see if our Constitution and checks and balances can save our democracy.

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3. Lock the bastard up with the rest of them. nt

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4. Bannon and together and separately the two Mercers are evil in it's purest form.

Who says insane amounts of money can't buy almost anything.