{"id":361725,"date":"2018-05-18T05:34:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T04:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cambridge-analytica-shared-data-with-russia-whistleblower\/"},"modified":"2018-05-18T05:34:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T04:34:35","slug":"prison-planet-com-cambridge-analytica-shared-data-with-russia-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cambridge-analytica-shared-data-with-russia-whistleblower\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Cambridge Analytica shared data with Russia: whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/news\/205\/cambridge-analytica-shared-data-russia-whistleblower-doc-1515r31\"><strong>AFP<\/strong><\/a><br \/>May 17, 2018<\/p>\n<div class=\"line textcontent_img watermark\">\n<p><strong>Political consulting group Cambridge Analytica used Russian researchers and shared data with companies linked to Russian intelligence, a whistleblower told a congressional hearing on interference in the 2016 US election Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Wylie, who leaked information on the British-based firm\u2019s hijacking of data on millions of Facebook users, told a Senate panel he believes Russian intelligence services had access to data harvested by the consultancy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wylie told the panel that Russian-American researcher Aleksandr Kogan, who created an application to harvest Facebook user profile data, was working at the same time on Russian-funded projects, including \u201cbehavioral research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that in addition to Facebook data being accessed in Russia, there are reasonable grounds to suspect that CA may have been an intelligence target of Russian security services\u2026(and) that Russian security services may have been notified of the existence of CA\u2019s Facebook data,\u201d Wylie said in his written testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Wylie added that Cambridge Analytica \u201cused Russian researchers to gather its data, (and) openly shared information on \u2018rumor campaigns\u2019 and \u2018attitudinal inoculation&#8217;\u201d with companies and executives linked to the Russian intelligence agency FSB.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing is part of a broad inquiry on both sides of the Atlantic over the misuse of Facebook data by the consulting firm working on Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/news\/205\/cambridge-analytica-shared-data-russia-whistleblower-doc-1515r31\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Thursday, May 17, 2018  at  6:43 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/cambridge-analytica-shared-data-with-russia-whistleblower.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/cambridge-analytica-shared-data-with-russia-whistleblower.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFPMay 17, 2018 Political consulting group Cambridge Analytica used Russian researchers and shared data with companies linked to Russian intelligence, a whistleblower told a congressional hearing on interference in the 2016 US election Wednesday. 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