Billionaire Trump backer's data firm under investigation for Russia connections

Cambridge Analytica, a “election management agency” partly owned by conservative hedge-fund manager Robert Mercer, may have provided information to help target Russian propaganda for disrupting the 2016 elections. According to a story in The Daily Beast, Mercer’s data-crunching firm has become a focus for investigations into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/12/1706365/-Data-firm-owned-by-Robert-Mercer-under-investigation-for-Russia-connections