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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
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Dear British press, if you are reporting GRU stories today please at least read Atlantic Council report on @Arron_Banks published yesterday. The Russian Embassies of UK & Netherlands critically implicated in both. This is 2 chapters of the same story
The difference - story alert! - is UK govt’s handling of them. They are both national security issues of highest order. There is cross-party support for an investigation including @DamianCollins & @tom_watson, & parl report demanding answers ..yet silence
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In Britain, we sensibly favour ‘cock-up not conspiracy’ approach. But read the @atlanticcouncil report & at least ask the govt why it has failed to respond to @commonscms report & address urgent questions of national security
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This has been a long haul for @profcarroll. We first wrote about his battle to get this data here. Today, Cambridge Analytica finally concede that he had a right to this data. Next question: will he actually get it?
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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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It's all been just a bit odd
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"I'm genuinely troubled & disturbed that we may not have rule of law in Britain with regards to the referendum & I urge you to look into it." My evidence to the EU Parliament in June. I'm posting it because I'm at a total loss. What on earth *do* we do??
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LeaveEU & Vote Leave both found to have broken law. But in October we discovered Met police hadn't even bothered to pick up the files. If we do get justice, it'll be no time soon. Meanwhile there's nothing but tumbleweed from Her Majesty's Opposition...
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