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OldMeg Wed 21-Mar-18 07:12:06

This is certainly an eye opener.

Has anyone been following the story? Channel 4 News did an excellent exposé.

Baggs Fri 23-Mar-18 19:51:47

I'm asking because it's a totally non-informative url and I don't like clicking on such as that.

whitewave Fri 23-Mar-18 20:06:46

bagga It is a diagram of the SCL group,of companies, their directors etc.

It is for anyone who wishes to refer to it as the story unfolds.

whitewave Fri 23-Mar-18 20:16:38

Lib Dem comment
pbs.twimg.com/media/DY_z5WAXcAAzl2O?format=jpg

Baggs Fri 23-Mar-18 20:35:55

Thanks.

durhamjen Fri 23-Mar-18 23:17:42

kittysjones.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/the-government-hired-several-murky-companies-plying-the-same-methods-as-cambridge-analytica-in-their-election-campaign/

MaizieD Fri 23-Mar-18 23:22:16

Doesn't AggregateIQ fit into the SCL network somewhere, whitewave? I can't see it on the graphic you posted.

durhamjen Sat 24-Mar-18 00:21:25

www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/23/cambridge-analytica-misled-mps-over-work-for-leave-eu-says-ex-director-brittany-kaiser

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 08:29:42

Adonis tweeted

“It looks as if parts of the Leave campaign may have been a criminal conspiracy”

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 09:14:39

CA lies about the work it had undertaken for the Leave campaign.

Nix, in reply to MPs questioning “CA never did any work for Leave”

Banks -one of Leaves founders, said that “yes CA did analyse data we provided from UKIP, but I refused to pay them for the work”
confused

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 09:22:52

There are some very dark undertones in this saga.
pbs.twimg.com/media/DZAiSuKW0AEjEEG?format=jpg

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 10:33:20

Evening Standard reporting that CA bragged that they had vast amounts of data that will sway the referendum vote.

Dominic Grieve the Tory ex-attorney general said that there is serious disquiet about this case. It needs to be thoroughly investigated.
Soubry said that micro-targeting means that the voting public can be bombarded with claims that sidesteps normal scrutiny and challenges. It is dabbling in the dark arts.
Vicky Ford- a strong remain Tory mp amongst a number of others, said that as a result of these false stories being micromanaged she had been subject to death threats.

durhamjen Sat 24-Mar-18 10:44:19

When all that stuff was removed from the CA offices in London, it could have been impounded on the streets. I hope someone did.
The warrant, surely, was just for entering the building?

durhamjen Sat 24-Mar-18 10:46:27

How does Vicky Ford know that, whitewave?

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 10:46:56

Have you been following the Dominic Cummins story? He sounds ghastly.

Now he’s talking about the ECHR and removing it as he breached it over the outing of an Observer source.

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 10:47:34

Vicky Ford- don’t know it is in the Evening Standard.

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 10:53:32

Cummins forced to remove his nasty statement
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whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 16:04:05

Interesting tweets
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durhamjen Sat 24-Mar-18 16:43:35

I bet Banks wishes he'd had self-destructing emails. I thought that was just James Bond, etc.

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 18:33:15

Whistleblower has told Observer that the Brexit campaign was to “totally illegal”

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 18:35:20

Who said “follow the money” according to the whistleblower Vote Leave illegally overspent in th3 campaign.

This is something that has long been rumoured

durhamjen Sat 24-Mar-18 19:33:01

And the man who was in charge of him is now May's right hand man.

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 19:45:02

maize well I think the graph is probably from what the SCL group produced, and it seems that the Canadian company was never disclosed for whatever reason.

Sorry I’ve only just seen your post

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 19:47:51

More info

pbs.twimg.com/media/DZEzuZXWAAE3zaF?format=jpg

whitewave Sat 24-Mar-18 19:54:06

Channel 4 reckon that Vote Leave and BeLeave cooperated which was illegal.

durhamjen Sat 24-Mar-18 21:30:22

On the Last Leg last night it was suggested that instead of leaving Facebook, people doctor their profiles to mess up the data collected.
Anyone for it?