The govt has announced in a press release that Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix has been disqualified as company director for 7 yrs for offering "unethical" political services.
Boris Johnson says he "can't remember" why he met with Nix when he was Foreign Secretary in 2016.
Tactfully, the govt press release doesn't mention Cambridge Analytica's role in #Brexit, or that a sister company of CA was paid by Dominic Cummings & Vote Leave to place 1.5 billion highly dishonest ads on UK voters' Facebook pages in the days leading up to the 2016 referendum.
The links between Cambridge Analytica & the Tories run deep. At one time the largest shareholder in CA's parent company SCL was Vincent Tchenguiz, a billionaire Iranian-Israeli and generous donor to the Conservative Party.
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
So why did Boris Johnson meet Alexander Nix in December 2016?
Fraser Nelson of the Spectator reports it was "to try to learn about, & improve links with, Team Trump". Which Nelson sees as entirely normal.
Just the sort of thing anyone might forget.
spectator.co.uk/article/boris-…
What a surprise.
Dominic Cummings, who used a sister company of Cambridge Analytica to place 1.5 billion lying ads on UK voters' Facebook pages in 2016, wants to rewrite data protection law.
The EU is right to be highly suspicious.
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
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