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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
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Ok, this is getting good now. Jeff Silvester has just admitted that company was working for SCL (Cambridge Analytica) and Vote Leave at the same time...
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Paul Farrelly" "Can you explain why Facebook said that the ads for Vote Leave and BeLeave that you ran shared the exact audiences?" Jeff Silvester: "It's theoretically possible. @darrengrimes_ gave us directions." This is not stacking up. At all.
This point is really key. AIQ submitted written evidence BEFORE the committee published this letter from Facebook. Their answers are completely incompatible. C'mon @commonscms. If Darren Grimes was directing him, how is this possible??
"I would have to answer in hypotheticals," says Jeff Silvester when asked about how EXACT SAME datasets used by Vote Leave & BeLeave....giving a completely nonsense reply.
.@DamianCollins now reading the letter from Facebook. The data was EXACTLY THE SAME. Jeff of AIQ has no answer. "I'll definitely look into it. I'll be surprised by that." Either they shared the data, says Collins. Or you did.
.@IanCLucas tackles Jeff on relationships to Leave campaigns. You have relationship to SCL. And then ex-SCL employee intros you to Vote Leave. And then after Vote Leave, you're intro-ed to the DUP, BeLeave, Veterans for Britain they all came after Vote Leave....
This looks important. BeLeave & Vote Leave used EXACT SAME data with AIQ. That looks to have come from this competition. That looks like it may also have built by AIQ. Any answers AIQ???
It's really unclear why Jeff Silvester bothered to get on a plane. Fobbing off the committee. Evading questions. "I'll look into it" is the only answer he can give as to why and how he used exactly the same data set for Vote Leave & BeLeave.
V important! The data file shared by Vote Leave & BeLeave was called "50 Million Remains". Vote Leave ran a football competition and this was one of the questions. They found Remainers. Then AIQ used this info to target them for both Vote Leave & BeLeave
Jeff Silvester referred to contract between AIQ & SCL published by UK Parliament as a fake. He pointed out it was unsigned. He'd never seen it before. Here's a signed version. With his co-founder's signature on it.
Woah. AIQ working for Ukrainian political party, Osnova. He says he's being paid by client in the US. ???
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