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WATCH: full #DeterringDemocracy investigation by the Channel 4 News Investigations Team here:
Vast in scale, the database contains details on almost 200 million Americans, among more than 5,000 files, which together amass almost 5 terabytes of data - making it one of the biggest leaks in history. #DeterringDemocracy
Trump’s 2016 election digital campaign involved a team from the now defunct British company Cambridge Analytica, working with the Republican National Committee. Two senior members of the Cambridge Analytica team are currently working on the Trump 2020 campaign.
Facebook is facing calls to ban political advertising following an international backlash over the use of its platform to spread misinformation, disinformation, and suppression during election campaigns.

The Trump campaign spent £44 million on Facebook ads alone during 2016.
Today, a Facebook spokesperson told Channel 4 News: “Since 2016, elections have changed and so has Facebook - what happened with Cambridge Analytica couldn’t happen today."

The Trump campaign, RNC and White House did not provide any comment to Channel 4 News prior to broadcast.
They wouldn’t comment to Channel 4 News, but Trump’s re-election campaign have now responded to our investigation, albeit to the Washington Post calling it ... ‘fake news’ washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

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Jul 29, 2021
TONIGHT at 7 on 4: Channel 4 News has learnt the Science Museum has signed a gagging clause, in its agreement with Shell International to sponsor its climate change exhibition, agreeing not to say anything that could damage the company’s reputation.
We obtained sponsorship agreement which states S Museum & trustees agreed not to “make any statement or issue any publicity or otherwise be involved in any conduct or matter that may reasonably be foreseen as discrediting or damaging the goodwill or reputation of the Sponsor.”
The oil giant Shell controversially sponsored the museum's major climate change ‘Our Future Planet’ exhibition which opened in May this year. Full report by @fatimamanji and produced by @NanettevdLaan #c4news 7pm
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Mar 19, 2021
Channel 4 News has obtained shocking CCTV footage of the moment a serving police officer violently assaulted a woman as she walked home alone.

@MinnieStephC4 reports #c4news 7pm
Broadcast for the first time tonight, the footage shows PC Oliver Banfield who was off duty at the time, violently assaulting Emma Homer, in what the court described as “misogynistic” verbal abuse. He was spared jail & ordered to pay £500 in compensation & wear an electronic tag
Tonight West Midlands Police told Channel 4 News PC Banfield has been suspended while allegations into gross misconduct take place. It was revealed that he has continued to work for them since the terrifying attack last year, albeit was ‘removed from public-facing police duties'
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Mar 18, 2021
TONIGHT: horrors of the hidden war as Ethiopia’s rape victims speak out.

Searing first-hand testimonies from victims of widespread rape in the conflict zone

260 victims of rape treated at single hospital since November 2020.

@JamalMOsman reports from Tigray province
Our Africa correspondent @JamalMOsman is one of the first foreign journalists to get into Tigray and hear the stories in person of the women who have suffered unimaginable horror at the hands of the soldiers who raped and tortured them. A truly extraordinary & distressing report.
WATCH: Sexual violence against women - one of the horrific weapons of war in the #TigrayGenocide.
A warning - this report by @JamalMOsman contains highly distressing testimony. 

channel4.com/news/the-horro…
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Jan 29, 2021
TONIGHT: shocking Channel 4 News report reveals how hundreds of overseas students have become destitute in the UK during lockdown, and turned to food banks in desperation.

One food bank in E London caters exclusively for 1700 international students a week, who queue for hours.
Report by @Anja_Popp, produced by @ShaheenSattar & filmed by @WilwithoneL - reveals international student visas don't give them access to government help and lockdown means there's no part time work available for them to support themselves.
Ben arrived from India to study in UK in March. Shared room with 1 student in Bedfordshire but when Covid hit - moved to house in E London with 14 students. Cramped accommodation means only way they can afford the rent - is by sharing beds - with as many as three other students.
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Jan 27, 2021
TONIGHT: Deputy CMO Jonathan Van Tam faces viewers questions on vaccine myths, fears over 2nd dose delay, will Covid mutations mean re-vaccinations, schools reopening, summer holidays & did govt really do everything possible to avoid 100k deaths? #AskJVT #c4news 7pm
NOW: #AskJVT Q & A special - Prof Jonathan Van-Tam:

• He needs help from black doctors & healthcare workers to get the message across that the vaccine is very important
• Grandparents can’t see their grandchildren ‘until we have vaccinated literally 10s of millions of people’ Image
#AskJVT tells @krishgm on #c4news:

• He’s ‘framing the possibility that we need to realistically consider if at some point in the future we are going to need to re-vaccinate some of our population’

• This is 'new, uncharted territory and it is very tricky' Image
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Sep 17, 2020
EXCL: Channel 4 News has seen a leaked document which calls on care home providers to accept patients who are COVID-positive from hospitals.

Full report by @C4Ciaran and @luciajwalker tonight 7pm
The contract, from Trafford Council in Greater Manchester, outlines how eligible care homes will receive COVID-positive patients within just 2 hours of the patient being identified by the hospital as ready for discharge.
Professor Adam Gordon told Channel 4 News that discharging patients from hospital to care homes was “accelerated and escalated” in the early months of the pandemic and that it could happen again this winter in line with the latest UK Government guidance.
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