Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):
Is it fair to describe Cambridge Analytica as domestic (i.e. USian)? My understanding is/was that they are London-based and mostly UKians, who rent out their leet math skillz to anyone who wants some agitprop and is rich enough to afford their fees.
i.e. basically a more advanced evolution of the SEO lifeform.
So, that's a strange thing. In original organisational form, it was created in the UK as a subsidiary(?, offshoot?) of British company SCL Group PLC. However, that was misdirection and a blind, because its entire purpose as funded and directed by majority owner and far-right lunatic billionaire Robert Mercer (who also funded Breitbart News) was to interfere using cutting-edge data-mining _plus_ political dirty tricks in American politics. A side-effort of Cambridge Analytica got funded and run by -- ta-da! -- Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner in 2016(?) to do the really dirty stuff, run out of a nondescript office building in Texas. Kushner handed off this effort to a hire named Brad Parscale, to run Trump's digital campaign and other shady things. It is very widely believed that the coordinated attack with Putin's well-funded but otherwise USA-clueless online operatives ran through the Texas operation. This was keenly focussed on figuring out to manipulate and distort the election in the few key swing states that ended up changing the election results by Electoral College chicanery despite Secretary Clinton's 3 million vote advantage in the popular vote totals. One of the key people _also_ running Cambridge Analytica and the Texas side-operation, at the time, was Trump flunkey and multiple felon Michael Flynn, who is extremely dirty with Russia connections and business complications. Here's a backgrounder: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/16/15657512/mueller-fbi-camb... However, the story is still unraveling, so there is a great deal you cannot find in old articles like that one.
Quick litmus test: Donald Trump or Andrew Jackson for worst US president?
So far, Jackson's body count is a lot higher, with particular points of total disgrace concerning Amerindian peoples. OTOH, he never tried to dismantle his own country's government for totalitarian reasons, nor betrayed it to foreign adversary countries. Also, Jackson despite his temper (all those moronic duels) actually had a brain and was literate. So, it really depends on your criteria. I'm thinking Trump despite the body count thing, on grounds of making a broad-based and protracted attack on one's own nation. The Toddler idolises Jackson, FWIW.