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Carole Cadwalladr
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These docs are pretty extraordinary. The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal always smelled like a cover-up. But now it looks one too. Washington DC Attorney General publishes redacted docs from inside Facebook that shows the official timeline is a crock of shit
If this seems like a complicated story, it isn't. Do you remember the weird silence from Facebook that followed publication of Cambridge Analytica story? The 4 days before Zuck emerged? The story he told then & later to Congress is now in serious dispute

Late last night Facebook changed its story on Cambridge Analytica. Again. Press office came up with whole new line. Now saying there was *another* Cambridge Analytica security alert. Which, after 3 years of denials, they only just thought to mention..

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Carole Cadwalladr
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@JolyonMaugham @GoodLawProject Hey Jolyon, good round-up though I could point to even more failings. First, BBC dropped a Panorama into @shahmiruk’s evidence. Statement from bbc head of news said they didn’t have ‘full access’ to evidence...but they had exactly what we & C4 had. Then, on weekend of publication
@JolyonMaugham @GoodLawProject @shahmiruk ..bbc news was briefed ahead on story, invited to view docs etc to be up to speed. But they never did the story. Not on the Sunday or any point after. I was invited on Marr to talk about it but not asked a single question about @Shahmiruk or his story..
@JolyonMaugham @GoodLawProject @shahmiruk The reason it matters is because the BBC is so dominant in UK news if it’s not on there, it’s like it hasn’t happened. The BBC’s failure to cover the story, I believe, is why it failed to have the impact it should have had.
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Carole Cadwalladr
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Last night, govt emailed 5 million people to reject petition saying it wd ‘honour outcome of referendum’. Time for a lightning round of what ‘honouring’ means here. Who claimed PM was ‘well aware’ of ‘notorious facts’ of mass illegalities but had decided to ‘carry on’ regardless?
Forgot to give the answer. It’s the government’s lawyer. James Eadie QC in the Wilson case. At least it’ll make the public inquiry more straightforward I guess. She knew. She carried on regardless
And here's the brilliant @brexit_sham with the clip
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Carole Cadwalladr
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I was going to say, A Tale of 2 Newspapers. But actually, it’s more like, A Tale of 2 Realities. In one of which the biggest march in British history (?) never happened
‘You can fake news & you can fake photographs..but you cannot fake an almighty crowd.’ Powerful @ObserverUK piece from @TimAdamsWrites that captures why yesterday so important. In an age of astroturfed online outrage, this sea of humanity spoke for itself
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
...we’ll only know what this march really meant in years to come. This is very much worth your time. Euan Ferguson on the Iraq march for @ObserverUK. ‘Will yesterday, astonishing yesterday, change anything? The facts are undeniable. Perception is all.’

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Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica.. theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Via the first major interview with @CamAnalytica whistleblower @chrisinsilico which explained Facebook had known about the leak for at least 18months and detailed Robert Mercer / Steve Bannon's central roles ‘I made Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica. Psych prof/developer Aleksandr Kogan accessed 270k FB users' data w his app, then collected their friends' data…& sold it all to Trump's data firm which used it to target ads in 2016 election theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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