Robert Muller investigates Cambridge Analytica and possible involvement with Russiagate
The head of the Special Counsel investigation of Russian interference in 2016 United States elections, Robert Muller, wants to clarify the links between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Cambridge Analytica. The American media are reporting that Muller’s assistants are investigating President Trump’s payment of 6 million dollars to the British firm. It also seems certain that at some point there have been contacts between Cambridge Analytica and Russia. Yania Ledovaya teaches at the faculty of Psychology at the University of St. Petersburg, and she told the online newspaper Meduza that she had met Alex Kogan, the inventor of the app that collected data from 50 millions Facebook users, in 2013, "by chance". Kogan (from the Russian media seems to have another surname, Spektor), is of Russian origin, born in Moldova and lived up to 8 years in Moscow, before moving with his parents to the United States: "He speaks Russian, but he does not read it and he does not wr...