Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak to what LUKOIL's intentions were in terms of those meetings. I do know that when SCL made presentations about disinformation or attitudinal inoculation, that did not dissuade the company from continuing that relationship. The company was interested. They then receiv

Information & Ethics committee  I wasn't present for the first couple of meetings. My understanding is that Steve Bannon was introduced to Alexander Nix by a mutual acquaintance. At the time he was the editor of Breitbart and was a follower of what's called the Breitbart doctrine, which is that politics flow do

Information & Ethics committee  I just want to make a small correction on the timelines. The Kogan project began after Steve Bannon took over the company, but it was authorized by Steve Bannon. So in terms of the timeline, the work that Aleksandr Kogan engaged in happened after Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer ha

Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak to the intentions or reasons why Zack Massingham would—

Information & Ethics committee  The reason I said “weasel words” is because it is technically true that AggregateIQ was not part of SCL. It was a separately registered company in a separate country. However, the intellectual property licensing arrangements, the contractual arrangements, and the development work

Information & Ethics committee  When you look at the relationship that AggregateIQ had with many of the different campaign groups on the Leave side, and you see that all of those different campaign groups received donations—in some cases, very sizable donations—from Vote Leave, and that this money then all went

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry. You're correct. What I meant by passing the money around is that the invoices.... You are correct. They probably did, in many cases, provide the money directly to—

Information & Ethics committee  I'm Sorry. I stand corrected. The invoices were different, but the money did—

Information & Ethics committee  At the time Dr. Kogan was engaged by SCL, he was also working on Russian-funded projects out of St. Petersburg on profiling social media users, with a particular focus on two things. One was online trolling, and trolling behaviour in all social media. The second was a focus on wh

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. I believe that, in fact, some of the work that SCL was doing for NATO was actually funded by the Canadian government. Something that the committee might be interested in looking at with the Department of Defence in Ottawa is the relationship there. In terms of the structu

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Around the end of October or November 2013, when SCL decided to scale and prioritize development of technology solutions, I reached out to Jeff Silvester and Zack Massingham and asked if they were interested in coming and working on projects in London. Because they had new famili

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  No, that's completely false. The reason AggregateIQ was set up in the first place was because there were projects that SCL was running, and then later Cambridge Analytica was running, that they needed a team of engineers to support. The arrangement was that AggregateIQ would pe

Information & Ethics committee  “Liberalist” is just a brand name for the CRM technology that was being developed. The thing that I would say is that just because data.... One thing that I would just caution, for anyone looking at this issue, is that the use of information in and of itself is not inherently ne