New details emerge about Steve Bannon's ties to Cambridge Analytica

[applegrove]

Brennan Weiss at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-ties-to-cambridge-analytica-facebook-data-run-deep-2018-3

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Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon distanced himself this week from the data firm Cambridge Analytica amid an outcry over its misuse of Facebook data, which compromised the personal information of roughly 50 million users.

Bannon, the former head of President Donald Trump's campaign, said he "doesn't remember" buying the data, even though he was serving on the firm's board at the time. He instead blamed "the Cambridge guy," referring to former Cambridge University professor Aleksandr Kogan, the researcher at the center of the scandal.

"I didn't even know about the Facebook mining," Bannon said during a conference hosted by The Financial Times in New York on Thursday. "That's an issue between Cambridge [Analytica], the professor, and Facebook."

But former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie, who oversaw research at the company at the time it acquired data from Facebook, disputes that assertion.

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[PaulX2]

1. Of course Bannon is lying

Just like his boss.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

2. Yep

Liar's gotta lie.

[magicarpet]

3. Yes... Bannon's first and foremost ambitions was to do...

.... what was best for America. He is such a red, white, and blue Patriot.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Mueller wants to speak with Wylie and he seems to have kept

a lot of memos and documents that support his claims. He is a good person for finally coming out with this info.