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Bombshell Mueller court filing shows Rick Gates was knowingly in contact with a Kremlin spy
Donald Trump’s Deputy Campaign Chairman Rick Gates was in direct communication with a person he knew was a Russian spy in the weeks ahead of the 2016 election, according to court documents filed by special counsel Robert Mueller Tuesday. The documents reveal Gates was in contact with a former officer in Russian military intelligence in the...
Moscow just accused U.S. of blackmailing other countries into kicking out Russian diplomats
Russia’s Foreign Minister has accused Washington of blackmailing other countries to join a coordinated wave of diplomat expulsions over a nerve agent attack in the U.K., warning the Kremlin would “not tolerate such impudence.” Speaking the day after 23 Western countries announced they’d expel more than 115 Russian diplomats in a...
Trump congratulated Putin after advisers wrote “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in all caps on his briefing materials
President Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on winning the Russian election, despite national security advisers writing “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in all caps on the briefing materials, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Trump not only ignored these instructions, the paper reports, but also ignored advice to bring up the nerve...
Trump had a chummy call with Putin and didn’t mention the poisoned spy
U.S. President Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin to congratulate the Russian leader on his victory in Sunday’s presidential election and discuss setting up a face-to-face meeting, both the Kremlin and the White House said Tuesday, despite reports of widespread irregularities in the Russian vote. The call — which the Kremlin described as...
Facebook may have broken state and federal law in Cambridge Analytica data share
The Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general have begun probing whether Facebook violated any federal regulations or state privacy laws in their dealings with the campaign consultant group Cambridge Analytica, which Donald Trump’s presidential campaign paid $5.9 million during the 2016 race. Facebook faces potential...
The U.K. government is going after Cambridge Analytica’s data
The U.K.’s data chief is seeking an urgent warrant to access the computers and servers of Cambridge Analytica, according to reports Tuesday. The news came hours after Elizabeth Denham, the U.K.’s Information Commissioner, ordered Facebook to stand down its own probe into the company over fears data may be deleted. Denham is seeking a...
We spoke with the whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook scam
Watch a version of this interview on VICE News Tonight, which airs on HBO weekdays at 7:30 p.m. EST.LONDON — Christopher Wylie played a big role in building one of the most effective political weapons of the digital age. Now he’s trying to make amends. The 28-year-old London-based Canadian is defying a non-disclosure agreement to blow the...
Don’t expect a fourth term to make Putin any friendlier to the west
Vladimir Putin scored a resounding victory in Russia’s presidential election Sunday, and his campaign spokesman welcomed the good news by thanking an unlikely helper: the nation of Britain, which had spent the last week publicly accusing Moscow of poisoning of a former Russian spy on British soil with a chemical weapon. All that drama...
Cambridge Analytica bragged about using fake news, bribes, and Ukranian hookers to influence elections
An undercover sting by Channel 4 News has revealed that executives from Cambridge Analytica boasted that they could entrap politicians with Ukrainian sex workers, offer bribes to public officials, and use former spies to dig dirt on political opponents. The report reveals CEO Alexander Nix and other Cambridge Analytica executives admitting to...
The Kremlin is hacking your power grid
The Trump administration Thursday took the “unprecedented and extraordinary” step of accusing Russia of carrying out cyberattacks against critical national infrastructure, including electric grid, water processing plant and air transportation facilities. The alert was the first official confirmation from Washington that Russian actors have...
