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Carole Cadwalladr Profile picture
@carolecadwalla
Oct 3, 2021 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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🚨First interview with @wsj’s Facebook whistleblower tonight on @60Minutes tonight🚨

A BIG deal. The total failure to hold Facebook to account after Cambridge Analytica is coming home to roost.

How many more insurrections have to happen before we do?

Facebook is out running interference ahead of interview. Nick Clegg is on manoeuvres. Because this is serious.

So many civil society groups - including & esp @FBoversight - were involved in strenuous attempts to get FB to take action ahead of US election

nytimes.com/2021/10/02/tec…
The point is that so many academics, experts, civil rights groups were warning of exactly this.

The insurrection wasn’t some sort of black swan event impossible to predict. Facebook’s failure to take essential measures to protect against violence was pointed out *repeatedly*
It was why @FBoversight was launched. To warn the public that Facebook’s failure to act was to use @tribelaw’s words to watch ‘a coup d’etat in progress’
My phone threw up this memory yesterday. The last time a whistleblower spoke so directly, Facebook melted down.

It precipitated their biggest corporate crisis to date.

And yet. Not a single executive was held to account.
In fact, that house of cards may be about to fall. The whitewashing job that enabled Facebook to emerge from the Cambridge Analytica wreckage may yet be exposed.

And this new whistleblower brings Facebook again into the spotlight…

theguardian.com/technology/202…
Pay attention to how @nickclegg is trying to deflect & divert.

I especially love how he emphasises Facebook removed ‘the original #StopTheSteal group’ conveniently glossing over all the other #StopTheStealgroups Facebook did nothing about. Including the one Steve Bannon was in
And here it is: the Nick Clegg defence in full. This is why they pay him the big bucks.

Social media doesn’t kill people. People kill people.

It’s a direct lift from the NRA school of media management. And if that all Facebook has left, it should be very very worried indeed
Starts in half an hour. Meanwhile…

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Jul 19
NEW: A convicted money launderer has operated at the highest level of UK politics for a decade. Why? Because Farage has enjoyed almost total impunity from the UK press.

In my new piece for @thenerve_news, I expose the decade of denial that’s enabled him to act with impunity
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2 weeks ago, Britain woke up to a new character: George Cottrell, convicted fraudster & close Farage aide.

But he wasn’t new. Cottrell has been in plain sight for a decade. So why is he only attracting scrutiny now?

One word: Brexit
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thenerve.news/p/nigel-farage…
If you’re wondering why Reform was dumb enough to accept donations from the mother of a money-laundering crypto expert and convicted criminal, it’s because the lack of any serious scrutiny of Farage created a sense of impunity.
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Jul 5
NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what??

Today @nerve_news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson.
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Christopher Harborne's £5m gift to Farage is now the subject of a parliamentary inquiry.

But our latest story in #HarborneReceipts raises incredibly serious qs including...did Boris Johnson give Harborne classified defence info he then profited from?
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thenerve.news/p/boris-johnso…
In early 2022, Harborne switched his donations to the Tories giving first £500k then on May 6, another £500k.

It wasn't his only transaction that day. UK defence firm, QinetiQ 3% issued a notice that he now owned 3%.

The next day, he spent hours with Johnson at Chequers.
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Jul 5
Bravo to the @Gabriel_Pogrund & team. This is the story in plain sight that needed to be nailed. Congrats are in order for getting it over a difficult line.

George Cottrell has operated with impunity at highest levels of UK politics for more than a decade
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Sun Times story is the gamechanger we need. But this is a decade-long story that was ignored by papers like Sun Times - as was Farage - for years. Because…Brexit.

Cottrell was central in both Brexit & building Brexit Party in years after
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And remember this. It was Cottrell’s indictment that Wigmore emailed across to his contact at the Russian Embassy. No good explanation for that.
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Jun 28
NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal.

New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve_news
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Johnson is now in the frame for breaching for the same parliamentary rules as Farage by accepting a gift from the same donor.

Report for @TheNewsAgents from me & @CharlieNotOld
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 thenerve.news/p/harborne-rec…
Harborne provided his private jet & pilot to Johnson in Jan 2023, after he’d resigned as PM but when still an MP.

There is no record of the gift in Johnson’s Register of Members Interests.
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Jun 15
A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! WtafImage
It’s an amazing report which nails how Russia’s hybrid warfare programme actually works & how Russia is explicitly & directly inciting racialised violence in UK - & working with Tommy Robinson to do so - as well as directing acts of violence
against PM.
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The stakes couldn’t be any higher. And I was already gripped by the incredible detail of what BBC uncovered - & which apparently Met police had missed - when Sergei Nalobin suddenly enters the chat..as a tutor to the guy who directed entire UK sabotage operation. Image
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May 23
NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve_news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts.

A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Nigel Farage’s crypto announcements.

And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift.

By @charlienotold & @LuciaOC_
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Nigel Farage’s crypto enthusiasm took off 2 months after Harbourne’s £5m gift…& escalated from there.

And in lockstep with an increasing number of donations from crypto billionaire Harbourne.

But that’s not all…
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thenerve.news/p/investigatio…
The Nerve’s @CharlieNotOld then went back & examined Harbourne’s donations to Boris Johnson…& guess what?!

It’s the exact same pattern as Farage.

Harbourne’s crypto donations immediately preceded Johnson’s crypto policy announcements.
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