Cambridge Analytica exploding forces a major question.
Whatever side you're on: was the referendum vote free or fair, if Cambridge Analytica was involved?
Should there be an enquiry?
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@sturdyAlex @mrjamesob @IanDunt @StevePeers
Whatever side you're on: was the referendum vote free or fair, if Cambridge Analytica was involved?
Should there be an enquiry?
Thread:
@sturdyAlex @mrjamesob @IanDunt @StevePeers
CA promised results by creating emotion: fear, hope... 'more deeply than anyone else', out of things people didn't even realise they cared about.
Look at how we felt about the EU before 2015.
I mean it. You may feel you've always felt this way, but 3 years ago, hardly any of us cared. Think back to 2012: do you actually remember being angry about the EU?
I mean it. You may feel you've always felt this way, but 3 years ago, hardly any of us cared. Think back to 2012: do you actually remember being angry about the EU?
Last night, Turnbull mentioned Cambridge Analytica used 'diff companies w diff names' to hide CA's involvement.
Leave groups spent £3.5m on a tiny Canadian company, Aggregate IQ, that had almost no web presence.
It's tied to Cambridge Analytica.
Leave groups spent £3.5m on a tiny Canadian company, Aggregate IQ, that had almost no web presence.
It's tied to Cambridge Analytica.
What did Aggregate IQ do for Leave?
Let's start w the DUP's £32K...
Let's start w the DUP's £32K...
Can you remember what the DUP paid AggIq £32K to do?
Bc the DUP can't.
They can't remember how they found AggIq.
And we don't know where they got the whopping £435K donation that paid for it. Parliament voted to shield it.
Bc the DUP can't.
They can't remember how they found AggIq.
And we don't know where they got the whopping £435K donation that paid for it. Parliament voted to shield it.
The DUP were so clueless about what AggIq did for them in the ref that they hired them AGAIN, to help them in the March 2017 election.
Not sure if they remember this either.
Not sure if they remember this either.
If clients don't want to be seen working w a foreign company, CA's Nix said: 'we can set up fake IDs, websites, be students doing research projects attached to a uni. I have lots of experience in this.'
Vote Leave gave £625K to a fashion student.
Vote Leave gave £625K to a fashion student.
Grimes spent Leave's £675K on ... Aggregate IQ 🙄to do an ad campaign on... Facebook
@carolecadwalla & OpenDemocracy.net have exposed a whole nest here. Whistleblower Chris Wylie is in the mix: he introduced AggIQ to Analytica in the first place.
@carolecadwalla & OpenDemocracy.net have exposed a whole nest here. Whistleblower Chris Wylie is in the mix: he introduced AggIQ to Analytica in the first place.
Leave. EU is, somehow, even worse.
Wigmore & Banks first said they were working w CA (illegal) - then told Parliament that CA only bid on work.
And now, Wigmore points the finger at Vote Leave over it.
Wigmore & Banks first said they were working w CA (illegal) - then told Parliament that CA only bid on work.
And now, Wigmore points the finger at Vote Leave over it.
Journalists have spent years unravelling this.
But Leave paid at least £3.5m to a company that influences elections however they can. Tactics to get round the law were a selling point in Channel 4's doc.
But Leave paid at least £3.5m to a company that influences elections however they can. Tactics to get round the law were a selling point in Channel 4's doc.
I won't even get *into* Leave's weird links to pro-Russia stances.
... OK just a bit. Srsly, what is this:
... OK just a bit. Srsly, what is this:
Come here. You & I - we want the same stuff, when it comes to our real lives.
Look at the state of this utter BS, and q's abt Russian money in our politics.
Look what it's done to us - how we're fighting. We never cared abt the EU before now.
There needs to be an enquiry.
Look at the state of this utter BS, and q's abt Russian money in our politics.
Look what it's done to us - how we're fighting. We never cared abt the EU before now.
There needs to be an enquiry.
Don't take it from me: try Leave. EU communications director Andy Wigmore.
Do you want to win bc it's the will of the British ppl, or bc illegal tactics/Rus were involved?
Pause A50 (& keep negotiating) so we can get a public enquiry right, & open this up.
Free & fair, right?
Do you want to win bc it's the will of the British ppl, or bc illegal tactics/Rus were involved?
Pause A50 (& keep negotiating) so we can get a public enquiry right, & open this up.
Free & fair, right?
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