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BOOM! Brexit campaign was totally illegal says a new whistleblower based on "lies, cheating, and a scam." Latest by @Channel4News #CambridgeAnalyticaUncovered #CambridgeAnalytica
The indefatigable @carolecadwalla introduces Shahmir Sanni, Vote Leave volunteer, how AggregateIQ, linked to Cambridge Analytica, played crucial role and voices his concerns that electoral spending rules were manipulated… and evidence apparently destroyed theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
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Speaking now, @chrisinsilico, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower - how @carolecadwalla (who is held back at the @guardian newsroom writing tomorrow’s big story) provided the patient and nurturing environment that allowed him to come forward...
... what persuaded him to talk to her was that she was a journalist willing to share with other journalists for the greater good, such as C4 and NYT, rather than clinging to her own exclusive as most would.
He started as an anonymous source for her early stories...
... he feels that the Tech journalists dismissed the story and ignored the reality, while Carole didn’t understand the Tech, but saw the significance. He spent the time explaining to Carole what all the Tech tools and processes were...
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Totally rampacked, as Corbyn would say, at Frontline Club for talk w @chrisinsilico and @carolecadwalla
Or rather, not @carolecadwalla as she can't be here 😞
Much lauding of Carole's patience, thoroughness - refers to a new media partner as yet unknown.

Wylie says he was the source of Carole's May article
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If Alexander Nix cared about his employees, & doesn't think he's done anything wrong, he would be cooperating with the UK's Information Officer. Not removing allegedly dozens of storage crates containing God knows what from Cambridge Analytica's office. thetimes.co.uk/article/i-ll-r…
Lobby of Cambridge Analytica's office in London. This really does not look good, and the Information Commissioner has confirmed it has nothing to do with them.
Alexander Nix admits in the article though that Cambridge Analytica "could help to change an election result by two or three percentage points using psychological profiling of voters."

That's brave of him to say that given the data breach allegations & Brexit result of 52: 48
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Facebook bans Trump campaign’s data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, for stealing user data wapo.st/2phRGOQ
"it failed to delete data that it had taken inappropriately from users of the social network"
Facebook said that Kogan had requested and gained access to information from 270,000 Facebook members after they chose to download his app. The app, “thisisyourdigitallife,” offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as “a research app used by psychologists.”
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