It’s eye-opening to summarize what was going on over those final months of my tenure. Our research was being seeded with questions about Putin and Russia. The head psychologist who had access to Facebook data was also working for a Russian-funded project in St. Petersburg, giving presentations in Russian and describing Cambridge Analytica’s efforts to build a psychological profiling database of American voters. We had Palantir executives coming in and out of the office. We had a major Russian company with ties to the FSB probing for information about our American data assets. We had Nix giving
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