https://freerepublic.com/tag/chriswylie/ en-us Wed, 16 May 2018 20:49:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3655797/posts 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. Christopher Wylie, who leaked information on the British-based firm's 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. 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 "behavioral research." "This means that in... AFP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3655797/posts#comment Wed, 16 May 2018 20:49:58 GMT