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Both sides and the president s side, the Special Counsel side had a facetoface meeting last week. A rare facetoface meeting after weeks of informal discussions and were told by a source familiar myself, my colleague that Robert Muellers Team Provided more granularity on the topics they would like to discuss with the president in a possible interview under the umbrella of the firing of james comey as well as the firing of the former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. The specifics include t...

>> a data firm, cambridge an lit ka. data up to 80,000 users to be precise, collected before the election that research went on to help the trump campaign better target voters online. >> personality quizes, we have all seen them on facebook. >> they got them through a personality quiz app taken by 300,000 users. >>. >> took data like your music preferences, gender, demographic, marital statics, likes. >> that gave the researcher access to our data and our friends data. this methodology was compl...

Critics sounded the alarm about the companys approach to their user privacy. >> facebook is not a social media network. facebook is a data mining company. it takes your data and it uses your data to turn a profit, to grow bigger. to gain more influence around the world. >> facebook promised the ftc in 2011 it would stop sharing customer data without explicit permission. but three years after that when people played games on facebook the company still allowed their friends data to be harvested. >...

Literally billions of users, critics sounded the alarm about the companys approach to their user privacy. >> facebook is not a social media network. facebook is a data mining company. it takes your data and it uses your data to turn a profit, to grow bigger. to gain more influence around the world. >> facebook promised the ftc in 2011 it would stop sharing customer data without explicit permission but three years after when people played games on facebook the company still allowed their friends ...

Analytica. aft first we thought there were 50 million people and facebook said the new estimate is 87 million people. cambridge said it is 30 million people. so they are not on the same page about this data. >> what happened is facebook went and counted every single user who had downloaded that app where they took a personality test and then all of their friends data was also sucked up and given by an academic to cambridge analytica. so 87 million is the total number of possible people who could...

Friends data and that scaled really quickly. >> so what im trying to say is bannon came n he wanted this information. this is -- you said at the behest of a millionaire which is robert mercer as well. >> right. >> breathing down your throat. and so bannon goes to work for the trump campaign. where does all this information go? it had to go somewhere. thats the basis of your company. >> well, yeah. i mean i dont -- how else did they build the algorithms then? what, you know, what did they use? >>...

Cambridge analytica itself. >> you know, gabriel, mr. wylie has said in a sense cambridge analytica developed psy psychographic profiles. downloaded and gave their data. but facebook gave all of their friends data who didnt give permission. so theyre building these profiles and using that to target you with just the think that would get you to change your mind. this is psychological warfare. how is it legal to be done through facebook? >> well, really, joy, you raise a good point. the regulation...