Thread by @carolecadwalla

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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