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by growlist 2361 days ago
> UK brexit

Is there any rock solid evidence around this yet? As far as I'm aware it's still in the realm of conspiracy theory. Given how far she's spun hearsay, circumstantial evidence and speculation, I'm betting if Carole Cadwalladr etc. did have anything concrete we'd never hear the end of it.
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dfxm12 2361 days ago
The head of biz dev for CA says they worked with Leave.EU and UKIP during the Brexit campaign.

https://www.politico.eu/article/cambridge-analytica-leave-eu...

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Chestofdraw 2361 days ago
To add to that, Vote Leave used AggregateIQ which is essentially the same company as CA.
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rjsw 2361 days ago
It sounds like the management/salespeople of CA have been telling potential clients that they could affect election results whether it was true or not.
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rumblerock 2361 days ago
I don't have evidence for Brexit, but I did personally witness a similar operation in a 2014 Senate race where the data made clear that this wasn't something organic, or small scale (think orders of magnitude). While I can't tie direct to CA if they were leaders in the space there's no reason to believe they weren't using the same playbook, and more.
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tiborsaas 2361 days ago
Evidence for what? Cambridge Analytica's role in Brexit?
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