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Russian funds in russia on profiling people and their personalities so i think it's really important for americans to know what this company is doing with their data and it's really important to find out was this data used to help elect donald trump. >> that's the former research director at cambridge analytica. he made reference to a russian oil company. that's about this company, lukoil that turned up in the past in russian influence operations overseas. one famous example is the czech republic with a pro-russian president in the czech republic found himself in financial trouble and this ran...

2015 they were in touch with corey lewandowski, best known as one of the trump campaign managers and christopher wiley describes how the information was used apparently like a political weapon. >> the fundamental difference between what came brj analytica has done when i show you an ad for a candidate, it says i'm so and so and i approve this message. it's apparent they're seeing political messaging. but what cambridge an lalytica does is creates a web of disinformation online so people start going on the rabbit hole of clicking on blogs, web sites that make them think certain thing are happen...

Professor from cambridge university where they made a deal to create an app called this is your digital life. when users signed up, users were asked about their education, location, employment history, political affiliation. that according to facebook was supposed to be used for academics but in fact it was used to share with cambridge analytics to influence voter opinions. here's christopher wiley. >> this is based on an idea called informational dominance. the idea that if you can capture every channel of information around a person and inject content around them, you can change the percepti...

Thank you very much. with me now are ken vogue him, "new york times" reporter and deputy assistant defense national security analyst. ken, christopher wiley there the man at the center of all this, this morning, says that corey lewandowski met with cambridge analytica as early as 2015. our reports say paul manafort, even lewandowski, himself, were in charge of the hiroshima. lewandowski put out this statement to nbc news saying i have no relationship with them, never have, and i have never worked with them. one central question that emerged now, since wiley left the company back in 2014, how w...

But inews 4 got a memo that appears to contradict that claim. >> nicks said his company never worked with russia, but the times said nicks' business did have dealings with russia interests citing company documents and interviews. cambridge analytica is an offshoot of scl group where nicks is a director. the paper says that scl employees had contact in 2014 and 2015 from the russian oil giant luc oil. >> so facebook has suspended facebook analytica cambridge and wiley. cambridge analytica has denied the reporting by andrew wiley calling it a malicious attempt to hurt the company adding it is cl...