In 2015, Donald Trump's campaign data firm, Cambridge Analytica, used a researcher to illicitly cull user data from 50 million Facebook users -- the researcher lied to Facebook users, telling them the information was only for "academic research," when it really for the Trump campaign and other clients. Trump then used that data to influence millions of Americans in the 2016 elections.

Cambridge Analytica was created by Trump super-funder, far-right conservative billionaire Robert Mercer. Mercer's daughter Rebekah sits on the board, and Steve Bannon had a seat as well.

It gets worse. Around the same time, Cambridge Analytica, a British-based firm owned by a UK defense contractor, reached out to to a Russian oil company, asking if they might be interested in learning how the company influences American voters. You might ask yourself why a Russian oil company needs information on influencing American voters only a few months before the start of the US presidential campaign season. Good question.

Now, we learn in a shocking undercover video by Britain's Channel 4 released Monday night, that Cambridge Analytica claims to bribe politicians, and send Ukrainian prostitutes to their residences, in order to help Cambridge Analytica's clients undermine those politicians. Not only is this sleazy as hell, but bribery is a crime.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg. A former Facebook employee says 200 million or more users may have been violated in similar schemes, by companies using the same tactics as Cambridge Analytica. And now we find out that Cambridge Analytica's parent company has been doing work with the US State Department and NATO.

This 11-minute segment of the UnPresidented Podcast focuses exclusively on the latest breaking news about the growing Cambridge Analytica scandal. You can listen to the entire podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-75-trump-data-17654831

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