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neohippie

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23. Yuri Milner has ties to Russian mob
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 02:27 PM
Jun 2017

One of the largest owners of Facebook, Yuri Milner has ties to the Russian mafia. He also has ownership in a lot of Silicon Valley tech companies.

Remember how the fake news stories were pushed to specific users through social media like Facebook

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/14/media/facebook-fake-news-france-election/index.html

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/27/facebook-found-efforts-to-sway-presidential-election-elect-trump.html


Facebook says some groups tried to use its platform to sway the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.

In a case study of the 2016 presidential election, the company said it found several instances of "information operations," its term for governments and organizations who attempt to sway political opinion by spreading fake news and other nefarious tactics.

The case study was included in Facebook's white paper on "information operations." It also detailed ways it was combating "fake news" and other misinformation spread by adding new technologies and creating more security features.

The company did not specify who the targets were or who was behind the attacks. However, it said its own findings do "not contradict" the U.S. Director of National Intelligence report on Jan. 6. The report was on Russian efforts to influence the election, and claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind a campaign to get his "clear preference," Donald Trump into the White House.



It's probably not coincidences that he also owns Digital Skies, Zynga, a company that has tons of Facebook games and has ties to Kushner.

https://www.incomediary.com/who-owns-facebook-the-10-richest-facebook-shareholders

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/3286-facebook-are-you-interfacing-with-the-russian-mafia--kgb



Gangsters R Us

A number of Silicon Valley watchers, and business writers (see here and here) have noted DST's ties to notorious oligarch Alisher Usmanov, but relatively few have expressed any concern. Many of the media reports, however, have treated DST's CEO Yuri Milner as if he were an investment rock star, a young Russian Warren Buffet with an uncanny eye for profit potential in tech stocks. But Usmanov, who provided DST's startup money and is the company's largest investor (he owns 35 percent, reportedly) is widely recognized as a friend of Putin and one of the most feared of the Russian Mafia dons. Known as "the hard man of Russia," Usmanov is actually an Uzbek with a prison record and a violent past. Perhaps best known outside of Russia as one of the largest share owners of Arsenal, the English Premier League soccer team, Usmanov's extensive business holdings inside the former Soviet Union include mines, metals factories, media properties, and mobile phones.

Like Vito Corleone (the Marlon Brando character in The Godfather), Usmanov is known for making offers people are afraid to refuse. One who did refuse and is no longer around to talk about it, is Leonid Rozhetskin, a millionaire Russian-American, Harvard-trained lawyer, who wouldn't sell his 25.1 percent share in Megafon, the Russian mobile phone service provider. In fact, Rozhetskin had filed suit in New York, alleging he had been threatened with physical harm unless he sold his stake. In May 2008 Rozhetskin disappeared from his vacation villa in Latvia; only a pool of his blood remained. And Usmanov ended up in control of Megafon. All indications are that Rozhetskin was murdered. His mother points to the Putin government as the responsible culprit. But Usmanov is the Putin underling most likely to have ordered the hit. The New York-based media-celebrity blog gawker.com refers to Usmanov


Yuri Milner also has ties to Kushner

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/03/the-web-of-relationships-between-team-trump-and-russia/?utm_term=.c25a5cc8be35


Trump’s son-in-law (Ivanka’s husband) also met with Kislyak during the period between Election Day and the inauguration, according to the New York Times. Kushner also has some loose connections to Russian business interests, according to the Times, including an investment from tech investor Yuri Milner in a real estate investment company and a friendship with the wife of oligarch Roman Abramovich. (She was invited to the inauguration as Ivanka Trump’s guest.)
Wonder if Jared's brother is involved?? dixiegrrrrl Jun 2017 #1
Trump had a computer server that was linked to Ukraine/Putin in his HQ that had ..... Botany Jun 2017 #4
I believe it was Alpha Bank that had direct communications with a server in Trump Tower. Eyeball_Kid Jun 2017 #5
The domain name registered to Trump, Inc., HQ, computer elsewhere had Alpha Bank warrant L. Coyote Jun 2017 #46
The Mercer Family... The Mercer Family... The Mercer Family... The Mercer Family... Raster Jun 2017 #7
Thanks for the above on Mercer 90-percent Jun 2017 #24
Where? I'm right in the middle of Suffolk County? onlyadream Jun 2017 #30
renisance technologys in my home town of setauket. 90-percent Jun 2017 #50
I'm very close to there onlyadream Jun 2017 #59
Cambridge Analytics,Steve Bannon owned by the Mercers. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2017 #11
Far to the right of even the Kochs...really terrible people. nt Lucky Luciano Jun 2017 #16
ideologically committed racists DBoon Jun 2017 #17
Now that might open a can of worms. nt deminks Jun 2017 #2
Can opened! FM123 Jun 2017 #9
ALL RIGHT! Me. Jun 2017 #3
It's about time. The Mercers are fascists with boatloads of money. Eyeball_Kid Jun 2017 #6
They're Causing More Harm In This Country, Big & Small Me. Jun 2017 #8
The Mercers are the ones who placed Bannon and Conway into Trump's campaign. They also tblue37 Jun 2017 #10
"Mercers", "Bannon". Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #13
F'n autocorrect. nt tblue37 Jun 2017 #14
F'n humans proofread f'n autocorrect. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #15
I do proofread and correct, but the autocorrect corrects my corrections--usually more than once. tblue37 Jun 2017 #20
I've had autocorrect override my manual corrections in the past.... George II Jun 2017 #28
Yes it is amazing what gets them upset. I'm running Android & I don't seem to have this problem. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #36
On the Plus Side Leith Jun 2017 #40
Actually, since punctuation is conventional, and since its main purpose is to help make things tblue37 Jun 2017 #41
+1. For both points. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #57
Now kids, don't get snippy about this..... flying_wahini Jun 2017 #56
Data analytics is where collusion occured. Russian bots targetted Bernie voters & shaky ones. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #12
I 100% agree with you Chico Man Jun 2017 #18
My bet is that Russia has been working towards this end the minute the US converted (mostly) to WinkyDink Jun 2017 #22
This is what I think. As soon as (hackable) machines were introduced LiberalLovinLug Jun 2017 #33
Too many Casper Milquetoasts. I'm not saying old Mayor Daley was better; I'm just sayin'. WinkyDink Jun 2017 #37
hear, hear. nt TheFrenchRazor Jun 2017 #48
States run their own elections, but nothing says we can't Qutzupalotl Jun 2017 #54
YES! Thank God they're finally looking at this FakeNoose Jun 2017 #31
How would they get info on Bernie voters? Wednesdays Jun 2017 #42
I was answering Bernardo La Paz FakeNoose Jun 2017 #44
Maybe from the DNC hack? Or maybe from faulty firewalls on NGP VAN? NoveltySocks Jun 2017 #45
I'm referring to this post on DU from last month FakeNoose Jun 2017 #47
Gotchya. I've been following the info on the voting machines, particularly WI and MI since NoveltySocks Jun 2017 #49
Analytics works by cross-tabulating likes & friends & retweets & reposts & word clouds Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #58
To see what data they had and where it came from? bettyellen Jun 2017 #19
OMG. This might be the mother lode right here. Golden Boy Jared might be the biggest traitor of WinkyDink Jun 2017 #21
Yuri Milner has ties to Russian mob neohippie Jun 2017 #23
Someone just shared this neohippie Jun 2017 #39
Do not forget Mitch McConnell Mr. Evil Jun 2017 #25
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Think he's in a safe house in Moscow. George II Jun 2017 #29
Speaking gigs. Xolodno Jun 2017 #32
My hats' off to all the agents who are working to uncover this nest of traitors. procon Jun 2017 #26
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Collusion, they shared voter lists Johnny2X2X Jun 2017 #35
Did the trump campaign share data with the russians? Gothmog Jun 2017 #38
see this article too cynical_idealist Jun 2017 #43
You know damn well JK'S guilty as hell... will look good in orange. InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2017 #51
Expect Putin paid the wages for employees of Data Analytics. nt NCjack Jun 2017 #52
Russians stupid to pick ILLINOIS golfguru Jun 2017 #53
We need Rachel to look into this. sellitman Jun 2017 #55
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