The @observeruk published evidence from @chrisinsilico & @shahmiruk that suggested Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Vote Leave & LeaveEU broke the law. The official regulators used evidence to find them in breach of law.

We committed journalism. Vote Leave committed a crime
Cummings refused to answer qs to parliament on his role in illegal overspending scheme, on illegal coordination of Leave campaigns, on illicit scraping of voter data, on secret ‘physicists’. Instead, man who was once most powerful in Britain is reduced to trolling me on Twitter
Cummings is desperate to exculpate himself from utter catastrophe that led to 152k deaths. And rewrite history of EUref.

But he can’t. You can’t bring people back to life. You can’t change facts. These were findings in law. Vote Leave appealed, failed & finally admitted guilt
There is a direct line from EUref illegality & lack of accountability to Britain’s disastrous Covid response. In both, Cummings relied on darkness. It’s why transparency, scrutiny, oversight are so crucial & why further erosion of these by this Vote Leave govt is so chilling.
Remember, we would know none of this if it wasn’t for @chrisinsilico @shahmir & guts & commitment of editors @paulfwebster @JaneFerg @sarah_donaldson @KathViner, lawyers @ladywell23 reporters @_EmmaGH @TownsendMark that we know anything of this.

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We have a choice. Cummings’s falsehoods & distortions. Or facts, evidence, accountability.

Cummings can’t dispute the evidence. So like many others, he doesn’t target the reporting or @ObserverUK, he resorts to personal smears against me: ‘Cadwalladr & the nutter network’
I am grateful to @julieposetti & @unesco for documenting this targeting & harassment & abuse & SLAPP suits & cumulative effects. And I look forward to working with @mariaressa & @safiyanoble on a project aimed at combating it. Enjoy your day @Dominic2306
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8 Aug
Criticise the behaviour, not the individual, they say. So here goes:

1) The abuse of children is morally repugnant & wholly unacceptable.

2) Online abuse *is* abuse. It must be called out. And it should be reported. It is subject to laws that can & must be enforced.

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3) Everyone has a right to be protected from harassment, abuse and hate speech. Victims shouldn't have to speak up for themselves. You can report it on their behalf.

4) It is a misconception that what happens online is somehow above and outside of the law. It is not.
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5) Organisations that employ individuals who engage in targeted hate speech, abuse and harassment have a responsibility to the victims.

6) 'Blue-ticked' or verified accounts or individuals who have a public profile play an outsized role in inciting violence online.
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29 Jul
Andrew Neil employs Farage. It’s his channel that gives him a platform he would not otherwise have & which enabled him to launch his attacks on the RNLI. The utter hypocrisy of this.
So is that it? Neil will get a free pass for this? Just like he got a free pass for being chair of the Spectator while senior political interviewer for BBC? Just like he got free pass for denying AIDS & publishing Hitler’s diaries & hanging out with Orban’s cronies. Extraordinary
Farage is just Farage. A busted flush, too toxic even for talk radio, until rescued by GBNews. The responsibility for RNLI culture war is entirely on Andrew Neil.
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23 Jul
Good morning. Please allow me to remind you & Mr Cummings & Laura Kuenssberg & BBC that 'Cadwalladr's ignorant fantasies' led to Vote Leave being found to have broken the law by the official regulator.
Cummings is deliberately conflating multiple elements here to discredit the reporting that led to the finding of illegality against the campaign he led.

But let's separate them out.

'Ignorant fantasy 1': @shahmiruk's devastating evidence that proved overspending & coordination
Ignorant fantasy 2: 'Facebook/Russia' = meaningless twaddle. 2 completely different things. But read Cummings's own words on FB. He pumped out 1bn FB ads - lies - overwhelmingly in last days. *When the illegal campaign spending occurred.* Also: when GB changed its mind on Brexit
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20 Jul
Turns on television. Has she asked him about breaking the law?
'Did you win on false pretences?'

How about this one: 'Did you win by breaking the law?'
I take it that's a no, then? Amazing. Literally biggest electoral fraud in modern British history. Never mentioned. Ever.
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20 Jul
OMG. This is a July 5 blog written by Robert Dingwall, a member of govt’s JCVI committee that has just refused vaccines to over 12s.

We need to understand who is making these decisions. He is a full ideological herd immunity blowhard.
Dingwall went on Newsnight last night & told Britain’s 2m Long Covid sufferers that it’s all ‘in the mind’.

This is a govt advisor. Where are other govt advisors. Are they ok with this?? Their silence can only be read as support.

Look at the language. It’s *exactly* that used by Sajid Javid. If not now, when? But this is Dingwall saying it one week earlier than Javid.

This is ideology. It’s not medicine or science. And it’s at the absolute heart of our public health
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18 Jul
NEW: 'Murderous' 'reckless' 'diabolical'. UK's herd immunity strategy reverberates around the world.

What do you do when your own government is not just failing to protect you but is actively putting you in harm's way?
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This is the fourth week in a row that @allthecitizens newsletter has majored in herd immunity.

This week the realisation of what the govt is doing finally broke through. And yet there's no way to stop it. Despite the collective horror of the international scientific community.
What we are seeing tomorrow is not Freedom Day. It's #UnFreedomDay. It's a day on which the powers of unreason & untruth will triumph. A triumph that will kill people you know. And leave 10s of 10000s with a debilitating, long-term condition.
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