Thread by @carolecadwalla

Steve Bannon has *finally*been indicted.

BIG news in America. But let’s not forget Big Steve’s interference in our own democracy. (And how Facebook has facilitated him at every turn.)

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Exhibit 1.

Here’s @nigel_farage on the day article 50 was triggered:

‘Well done Bannon, well done Breitbart. You helped with this hugely’

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Exhibit 2: Remember this? Just a casual offer to illegally fund @nigel_farage’s new Brexit party

‘If you’re interested, what I’d like to do is set up something & I’ll fund it somehow. And I think you’re the perfect guy’

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Exhibit 3: Remember the histrionic resignation speech Boris Johnson made when he stepped down from being Foreign Secretary to pave way for his ultimate bid for power?

‘I’ve been talking to him all weekend about this speech’

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(Here’s @AlJazeera reporting on Boris & Bannon & me whinnying on about the failure of British broadcasters to cover it)

Exhibit 4

Love this. Here’s the man himself calling Bannon’s claim & my story ‘Codswallop’.

Exhibit 5: But this is just the Guardian & Observer banging away on the same old dru-
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…

Exhibit 6: But why on earth does Facebook still treat Steve Bannon’s Breitbart as a ‘trusted news outlet’ when it’s a disinformation sewer? 🧐

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

Exhibit 7: Steve Bannon was VP at Cambridge Analytica when it harvested the Facebook data. And the FTC has some questions…