Talk:Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia (January–June 2018)

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  • May 18:
    • U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Warner (D-VA), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) call for a rare multi-agency inspector-general investigations into the Trump administration’s failure to fully implement congressionally mandated Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act sanctions against Russia.

errors? 204.38.4.80 (talk) 00:54, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

suggest per WP:ALSO links[edit]

Suggest re-adding per "Whether a link belongs in the "See also" section is ultimately a matter of editorial judgment and common sense." of wp:also the links below, for the overwhelmed wp:Reader

21:40, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

I reverted per common practice but I'm not opposed to adding them back. Theses links act as a navigation help, and they are already in the navbox. This is one case where personal preference clashes with site guidelines. — JFG talk 04:12, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

add "2018 Russia–United States summit" ?[edit]

Should the 2018 Russia–United States summit be added (after starts)? X1\ (talk) 22:29, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

what does that have to do with this page עם ישראל חי (talk) 22:55, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Only if it emerges that Putin and Trump discussed the investigations. Not on the official agenda yet. — JFG talk 11:36, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

more than one Trump Tower meeting with Veselnitskaya?[edit]

May 16 item has "The Senate Judiciary Committee discloses transcripts of Trump Tower meetings between Trump campaign figures and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya". Was there more than one Trump Tower meeting with Veselnitskaya? X1\ (talk) 00:16, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@X1\: The item only refers to one meeting, and the transcripts are interviews of the participants, not of the meeting itself. I changed the wording to something more appropriate. Websurfer2 (talk) 01:07, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Unrelated items[edit]

The Trump Foundation should not be included in this timeline.Theoallen1 (talk) 20:48, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announces that Trump agreed to shut down the Donald J. Trump Foundation, his personal charity, as part of the lawsuit filed against the charity in June. The charity's remaining assets will be distributed to charitable organizations approved by Underwood's office. Alan Futerfas, an attorney for the Foundation, accuses Underwood of politicizing the agreement.[1]

We'll keep the Donald J. Trump Foundation item here and see if it is related later. We go by the RSs, not our POV. 23:07, 27 December 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by X1\ (talk • contribs) 22:29, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You've got it backwards. The Trump Foundation story should be removed from this timeline until RS show that it's related to Russia. Haven't seen that being alleged yet. — JFG talk 22:01, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Farenthold, David A/ (December 18, 2018). "Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations that he used it for personal and political benefit". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 18, 2018.

Cambridge Analytica / SCL Group[edit]

March 16: Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group for violating its platform policies in 2015.[1]

March 17:The New York Times and The Observer report on Cambridge Analytica's use of personal information acquired by an outside researcher who claimed to be collecting it for academic purposes. As a result, Facebook bans Cambridge Analytica from advertising on its platform.[2][3] The Guardian reports that Facebook has known about this situation for two years, but has done nothing to protect its users.[4]

March 19: The Guardian reports that Joseph Chancellor, the co-director of Global Science Research (the company that harvested the data from tens of millions of Facebook users before selling it to Cambridge Analytica) has been working for Facebook as a corporate quantitative social psychologist since around November 2015.[5]

March 20: The Washington Post reports that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating whether Facebook violated its 2011 consent decree when it allowed Cambridge Analytica to access user data without informing users or seeking their permission.[6]

March 23: The British High Court grants the Information Commissioner's Office's application for a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica’s London offices.[7]

March 27: Christopher Wylie tells U.K. lawmakers that Palantir, a secretive company co-founded by high-profile Trump supporter Peter Thiel, worked with Cambridge Analytica on their ad-targeting in the 2016 election.[8]

April 4: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a call to reporters, says the personal information of up to 87 million people, most of them Americans, may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 election.[9] Facebook announces sweeping changes to many of its APIs—software plugins that allow outside businesses and developers to collect data directly from Facebook.[10]

April 24: Democrats on the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees interview Christopher Wylie about Cambridge Analytica's harvesting of data from Facebook. Republicans on the committees decline to attend.[11]

May 2: Cambridge Analytica files for bankruptcy in the U.S. and the U.K. and ceases operations. The company says it lost almost all of its customers and suppliers after news reports describing how it improperly obtained user data from Facebook.[12] Some employees move on to successor companies Data Propria and Emerdata.

July 2: The Washington Post reports that the SEC and the Federal Trade Commission joined the Justice Department's investigation of Facebook. Investigator's questions center around what Facebook knew in 2015 about Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook's user data and discrepancies in recent statements about the incident.[13]

July 10: The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) fines Facebook £500,000 for two violations of the Data Protection Act 1998, the maximum fine the Act allows. The ICO found Facebook failed to safeguard user data and wasn't transparent about allowing third parties to harvest user information. The ICO also announces that it is going to criminally prosecute SCL Elections Ltd, the parent of Cambridge Analytica, for refusing to cooperate in the ICO's investigation.[14][15][16]

October 4: The Daily Beast reports that Brittany Kaiser, the former director of business development at Cambridge Analytica, will be interviewed by House Intelligence Committee Democrats, and that she previously testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee.[17]

November 6: The Information Commissioner's Office releases its final report on Cambridge Analytica, titled "Investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns". The commissioner found Cambridge Analytica would have received a substantial fine if it were still in business, and that it "unfairly process[ed] people’s personal data for political purposes, including purposes connected with the 2016 U.S. presidential campaigns." It said the company "nimbly" evaded the few restrictions Facebook imposed on acquiring user data. The commissioner also found that Cambridge Analytica and Leave.EU never reached an agreement to work together even though an executive appeared with Leave.EU officials at a press conference.[18]

November 24: The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee compels the founder of the American software company Six4Three to hand over a cache of internal Facebook documents the company acquired as part of a lawsuit against Facebook. The documents are related to Facebook's data-sharing practices. The committee previously requested such documents from Facebook as part of its investigation into Cambridge Analytica, but the company refused to cooperate.[19]

December 19: D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine sues Facebook over its involvement with Cambridge Analytica.[20]

These items were deleted, but since the editor knows Cambridge Analytica/SCL Group and Facebook are part of the Russian interference investigation timeline, the deletion of these items is considered vandalism. The editor used an Edit Summary of "The Cambridge Analytica–Facebook saga is off-topic". X1\ (talk) 22:07, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Everything I removed is either exclusively about British politics, or about Facebook lawsuits unrelated to the Trump campaign or to Russia, therefore my "off topic" edit summary was perfectly correct. You have some nerve to call my careful edits "vandalism". How about you stop knee-jerk reverting everything I do? You've got a serious WP:OWNership problem with those timeline pages. They are not your personal scrapbook. Please show some willingness to work with other editors and, dare I say, WP:AGF. — JFG talk 21:55, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Addition notation, from Talk:Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2017): Restored item deleted with duel Edit Summaries of "Trim Cambridge Analytica coverage" and "Null edit to explain previous one: Cambridge Analytica did not work for the Trump campaign". As Cambridge Analytica in reality did worked for the Trump campaign, and this item shows the Mercers (Robert Mercer & Rebekah Mercer) direct involvement in their activities (less of a business than as a political arm), and the deleting editor knows Cambridge Analytica worked for Trump; this deletion (due to its ES) is considered vandalism when considered with these mass deletions. X1\ (talk) 20:50, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]


References

  1. ^ Grewal, Paul (March 16, 2018). "Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group From Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  2. ^ Rosenberg, Matthew; Confessore, Nicholas; Cadwalladr, Carole (March 17, 2018). "How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  3. ^ "Trump-linked data analysis firm taps 50M Facebook profiles". The News & Observer. Associated Press. March 17, 2018. Archived from the original on March 17, 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2018. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Cadwalladr, Carole (March 18, 2018). "'I made Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool': meet the data war whistleblower". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
  5. ^ Lewis, Paul; Wong, Julia Carrie (March 18, 2018). "Facebook employs psychologist whose firm sold data to Cambridge Analytica". the Guardian. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  6. ^ Romm, Tony; Timberg, Craig (March 20, 2018). "FTC opens investigation into Facebook after Cambridge Analytica scrapes millions of users' personal information". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  7. ^ "UK High Court grants Cambridge Analytica search warrant to ICO". CNBC. Reuters. March 23, 2018. Archived from the original on March 23, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  8. ^ Kharpal, Arjun (March 27, 2018). "Peter Thiel's Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data, whistleblower alleges". CNBC. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  9. ^ Kang, Cecilia (April 4, 2018). "Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  10. ^ Schroepfer, Mike (April 4, 2018). "An Update on Our Plans to Restrict Data Access on Facebook". Facebook Newsroom. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  11. ^ Jalonick, Mary Clare (April 24, 2018). "House Democrats talk to Cambridge Analytica whistleblower". Associated Press. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  12. ^ Robertson, Jordan (May 2, 2018). "Cambridge Analytica Shuts Operations After Facebook Scandal". Bloomberg LP. Retrieved June 23, 2018.
  13. ^ Timberg, Craig; Dwoskin, Elizabeth; Zapotosky, Matt; Barrett, Devlin (July 2, 2018). "Facebook's disclosures under scrutiny as federal agencies join probe of tech giant's role in sharing data with Cambridge Analytica". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  14. ^ Information Commissioner's Office (July 10, 2018). "Findings, recommendations and actions from ICO investigation into data analytics in political campaigns". Information Commissioner's Office. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
  15. ^ Information Commissioner's Office (July 10, 2018). "Investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns Investigation update" (PDF). Information Commissioner's Office. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
  16. ^ Romm, Tony; Dwoskin, Elizabeth (July 10, 2018). "Facebook is slapped with first fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
  17. ^ Woodruff, Betsy (October 4, 2018). "Ex-Cambridge Analytica Exec to Field Congress Questions". The Daily Beast. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
  18. ^ Satariano, Adam; Confessore, Nicholas (November 6, 2018). "Cambridge Analytica's Use of Facebook Data Broke British Law, Watchdog Finds". The New York Times. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
  19. ^ Cadwalladr, Carole (November 24, 2018). "Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers". The Guardian. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  20. ^ Romm, Tony; Fung, Brian; Davis, Aaron C.; Timberg, Craig (December 19, 2018). ""It's about time": Facebook faces first lawsuit from U.S. regulators after Cambridge Analytica scandal". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 19, 2018.

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Requested move 16 November 2019[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved - creating dab page now - (closed by non-admin page mover) DannyS712 (talk) 01:00, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]


Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2018) → Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (January–June 2018) – Split due to oversized article, also see Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (July–December 2018) for second half of split. X1\ (talk) 21:37, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree to the split. There is still much to add to the article, and it is approaching Wikipedia limits for the allowed number of templates. Websurfer2 (talk) 22:28, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I also agree with the name change to reflect the truncated date range encompassed by the article. Websurfer2 (talk) 22:35, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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