Great scoop from ⁦ @jimwaterson⁩ on who is running these Facebook accounts hiding behind Tim Dawson and Theodora Dickerson.

So Old Lynton Crosby, who made a loan to Johnson, is running this particular dark campaign.

They seem to be making money https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/03/grassroots-facebook-brexit-ads-secretly-run-by-staff-of-lynton-crosby-firm
Companies House Docs for CTF Partners Limited indicate healthy operating profits and payments to shareholders.

So who is paying them for this work, I wonder.?

Who is behind Johnson and Davis (also receiving the benefit of trips paid by the company).
Buzz Feed, earlier today, reminded us that the @CommonsCMS has opened an inquiry into the true funding behind these ads that target individual MPs.

https://twitter.com/markdistef/status/1113353039019159552?s=21
Is it my imagination or did I see somewhere that Chloe Westley (previously Sharland, from Companies House Records) worked with Lyndon Crosby at one stage ( @StillDelvingH ?)
This thread really REALLY makes a great point.

One that I had not fully pulled together, although - as you will know - it has been lurking there in my mind for a year or so.

The COORDINATION behind the FB advertising and why transparency matters.

https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1113463212861743105?s=21
I would add another point.

IF CTF are using staff members or ex staff members to “front” the placing of these ads in their personal capacity that would rather demonstrate a deliberate intention to hide what they are doing.

Why would they need to do that?
Here is @jimwaterson ‘s thread that makes other points I had not thought about.

The use of “soft” Brexit messages...eg about heritage sites to open the door to a focussed campaign.

Well worth your time. https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1113460776923271171?s=21
And a reminder from @StillDelvingH about links between Linton Crosby and SCL and Facebook data to support Targetted psychological information campaigns.
A renminder from @shady_inf0 about Crosby’s links to the Australian Fossil Fuel industry. https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1103730307629490176?s=21
With regard to @shady_inf0 thread about Crosby and the Australian Fossil Fuel Industry, the Company that commissioned him, Glencore, has been cropping up rather a lot in the Trump, Russia story, with @WendySiegelman having done some interesting threads

Maybe this is another link
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