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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
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Yesterday, crazy cat lady...
Today...ORWELL PRIZE WINNER!
Gobsmacked. (And a bit emotional). THANK YOU to everyone at the Observer & @guardian who helped get this on the page. And THANK YOU to everyone here who's supported it along the way. It's helped me more than I can say...
This story has been so HARD. Hard to report, hard to publish, hard to legal, hard..to keep on going. That we’ve got this far is down to a small team of editors & lawyers at the Observer with the skill & wisdom (& patience) to see it through...its v much their prize too xx
...and then there’s these two. What flipping GUTS...
I’ve spent most of today veering between panic, rage & despair. Rage because of this piece which has revealed another total car crash of referendum immorality/illegality. It’s so wonderful the serious journalists are now showing up. But it’s just so late
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
And, despair, or at least frustration, because it transpires you can lie about your relationship to the Kremlin, you can pass FBI docs to Russian govt, co-ordinate your social media messaging with a hostile foreign power...& get away with it.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/j…
If you haven’t read this, please, please do. This is a world that Orwell would absolutely recognise. It’s authoritarianism. It’s in plain sight. And nobody - nobody - in Britain is doing a thing about it.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/j…
Because if you want to understand the referendum, look at Grenfell. This is systemic failure. Everything failed. Our laws, our regulators, our ability to hold power (big tech) to account. Politics failed. We have a govt that is covering up. And an opposition that is enabling it
Anyway, touched beyond measure by support on here. I hated Twitter before this but..the platform that nurtured Nazis also led me to so many people who’ve played such a crucial role. Some I’ve even had the v great pleasure of meeting. Thanks nerds. You know who you are.
And finally - FINALLY! - it’s not a fucking cat, @arron_banks.
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NEW: Cambridge Analytica said US voter @profcarroll had no more right to know what data the company held on him than "a Taliban sitting in a cave". Today, it pleads guilty in case brought by Britain's ICO. This is a big deal. US citizens! You have..drum roll..rights to your data!
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Instead of shitting on other journalists, Buzzfeed, why not *do* journalism? Your biggest investor sits on Facebook's board & is a close friend of Zuck's. He's refused to answer my qs about his sale of Facebook stock - right before Cambridge Analytica story first broke. Why?
You were the main publication shitting on the Cambridge Analytica story two years ago. "Snake oil"! "Conspiracy theory"! And you've been shitting on me ever since I published Wylie's story back in March.

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So the groypers upset with my tag and drag of Nazis have noticed my love of cats and are accusing me of being a crazy cat lady... and I'm like, yeah, dude, I'm a dyke who wants to cuddle cats I just don't want fucking Literal Nazis in my neighbourhood.

It's not that deep, sweaty
My motivations aren't complex.

Cats: ✅
Nazis: ❌
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