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by gadders 1938 days ago
Not quite:

"One problem with the Vote Leave / AIQ / Cambridge Analytica theory floated by Wylie was that while AIQ did the actual ad-buying – the company’s speciality – its actual 'data science' was done by a different firm, ASI Data Science (now rebranded as Faculty), a low-profile company that had previously worked with the Home Office on tracking online extremism on Facebook, among other clients.

The other was that no-one could produce any evidence to suggest Cambridge Analytica and Aggregate IQ were anything other than separate companies who had seen some personnel overlap, and who had worked together."

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/were-there-any-links-bet...
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jonquark 1938 days ago
"Essentially it was set up as a Canadian entity for people who wanted to work on SCL projects who didn’t want to move to London. That’s how AIQ got started: originally to service SCL and Cambridge Analytica projects,” said Wylie (who was research director for SCL the parent company of CA).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/24/aggregateiq-...

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gadders 1938 days ago
Wylie isn't the most credible witness. He got sued by Cambridge Analytica for using their IP to start up a rival company.

Regardless, this still doesn't prove the original report was correct.

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