Information & Ethics committee  In order for the technologies AIQ was developing to work, what they built was the interface between databases and online platforms that you could put advertising on. They were that sort of middle ground. You need to have access to the data in order to pull lists, in order to send

Information & Ethics committee  I appreciate your very Canadian political term of “Burma-Shave”. I haven't heard that in a long time.

Information & Ethics committee  The thing that I find farcical is the line that all AggregateIQ does is just click some demographic on Facebook Ads Manager and that's it. The problem I have with that is, I'm like, well, what is the value of your company then? All you're doing is something an intern could do, ri

Information & Ethics committee  Alexander Nix usually handled the relationships with clients, or perspective clients. I do know that he went out and met with several prospective clients mostly in Africa or the Caribbean, some in South America and in Asia, about some of the work that was being done. I wasn't nec

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Part of the work that the company did was to go into other countries and work in election campaigns, particularly in emerging democracies. The way that the company often made money was not necessarily from working in elections, but rather using the relationships that it buil

Information & Ethics committee  To be clear, I didn't work on voter suppression projects. I was made aware of them while I was there. My understanding of what the company was intending to do—I believe at the instigation of Steve Bannon and some of his colleagues in different packs—was to create lists of predom

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. The data would be sourced from multiple origins. Some of it was commercial, some of it was electoral, and some of it was social or online.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, so that means—

Information & Ethics committee  Well, Steve Bannon had to approve all of the projects that the company engaged in. As the vice-president, he was in charge of managing the operations on a day-to-day basis, albeit in the United States. Any new clients or new projects or new stream of work, particularly if it incu

Information & Ethics committee  He was aware of the work that was going on. He was aware of Dr. Kogan's work, and he approved the financing of it. To highlight the scale of it, the company spent close to $1 million in the first three months of that project, so that had to be approved by Steve Bannon and the Mer

Information & Ethics committee  When I first got engaged by the SCL Group in the summer of 2013, they were looking at modernizing a lot of their activities and work, particularly as they related to what was happening in the defence community, which was an expansion of research into the proliferation of ideas on

Information & Ethics committee  To be clear, when I was first engaged by SCL, I became research director for multiple companies, so it wasn't just the elections division that I was working on. Looking at the research we were doing originally, it wasn't necessarily just for elections. There would have been milit

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. That's sort of a new way of calling it.

Information & Ethics committee  It's disinformation.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure.