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Cambridge Analytica

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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.

MawBroon Sat 24-Mar-18 21:38:52

So how this had slipped sideways on my iPad, and I thought it said *Ambridge Analytica - a new Archers thread ?

MawBroon Sat 24-Mar-18 21:39:26

“Somehow” blush

durhamjen Sat 24-Mar-18 21:57:39

Another idea.

weownit.org.uk/blog/is-it-time-we-all-owned-facebook

durhamjen Sat 24-Mar-18 22:40:09

This is a very long detailed article about data breaches.

kittysjones.wordpress.com/2018/03/24/calibrating-academy-hubert-huzzah/

For those who like to know the ins and outs of everything.

durhamjen Sun 25-Mar-18 09:44:05

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/cambridge-analytica-bragged-we-have-vast-data-for-brexit-vote-a3797441.html

Article showing the photo of Brittany Kaiser next to Arron Banks.

durhamjen Sun 25-Mar-18 09:47:41

10 page document saying exactly what they did and that Leave.EU would have to pass over its own facebook data to get the full benefit.

whitewave Sun 25-Mar-18 13:37:08

Anna Soubry tweeted on vote leave etc

No one likes a cheat, so when they get caught out there should be consequences. As the truth emerges, abuse of social media, fake claims and false promises. The voter must be given the chance to hold them to account.

whitewave Sun 25-Mar-18 13:40:24

Anyone watch Oakshot trying to shut Caldwalder down this morning on Marr? Oakshot was active part of the leave U.K.

whitewave Sun 25-Mar-18 16:39:08

Private matter

mobile.twitter.com/FordingtonField/status/977882463556001800/photo/1

whitewave Sun 25-Mar-18 16:40:32

Interestingly that cartoon by Steve Bell is dated 2016. This suspicion has been rumbling for ages

durhamjen Sun 25-Mar-18 19:18:05

I thought that as well, whitewave. I don't know why Marr allowed her to criticise Cadwalladr like that. I thought she was so condescending.

varian Sun 25-Mar-18 19:24:30

Isabel Oakshott seems to be another great favourite of the BBC, always on the Daily Politics, Question Time and other political shows promoting hard line brexit. Although I have read Carol Cadwalladr's pieces in the Guardian, I have never seen her on TV before. Oakshott just kept saying "where's your evidence?" and was allowed to get away with that.

durhamjen Sun 25-Mar-18 19:26:52

"Where's your evidence? I thought we'd destroyed it all!"

POGS Sun 25-Mar-18 19:46:19

whitewave

I know durhamjen links to skwawkbox , kitsy Jones , the Canary , Jack of Kent etc, are all left wing sites but who is behind the site you keep putting links on Gransnet to :-
pbs.twimg.com?

I have asked you before but received no reply from yourself, as far as I am aware. I really am struggling to find out who you are asking GN'ers to take notice of and click onto their site.

whitewave Sun 25-Mar-18 19:48:17

Twitter

whitewave Sun 25-Mar-18 19:48:44

But you don’t have to click on it I’m not that bothered tbh

lemongrove Sun 25-Mar-18 19:59:58

Why shouldn't Oakshott ask ‘where’s the evidence’ ?
Marr was saying much the same thing really. I have a feeling that there may not be any evidence of real wrongdoing.
Unethical perhaps, but illegal?

whitewave Sun 25-Mar-18 20:03:54

Frankly Oakshot rattled reaction would only go to spur me on to dig further. She was extremely uncomfortable.

As someone tweeted

“Proper journalist meets brexremist propagandist”

durhamjen Sun 25-Mar-18 20:04:29

Because there has been a week of evidence being shown on Channel4, in the Guardian and Observer.
Have you missed it?

durhamjen Sun 25-Mar-18 20:08:49

It's Kitty Jones, not Kitsy, and you omitted Prides Purge.

You don't really expect me to link to the Times, DM, Telegraph or Express, do you, POGS?

lemongrove Sun 25-Mar-18 20:11:16

Because Oakshott voted Leave doesn’t make the evidence more or less real.
That cannot be considered as ‘hard evidence’ durhamjen
Much as posters do not like the ‘wait and see’ words, that is what everybody has to do.

whitewave Sun 25-Mar-18 20:12:07

She more than voted leave

durhamjen Sun 25-Mar-18 20:13:28

About Kitty Jones.

kittysjones.wordpress.com/
She writes a blog because she is too ill to work.

"We are the 6th wealthiest nation in the world, and we have people both in work and out queuing at food banks. What is the point of a socioeconomic mode of organisation – in this case, neoliberalism – if citizens can’t afford to eat and meet their other basic survival needs?

We are a first world liberal democracy, yet the Conservative’s socioeconomic policies have redistributed and privatised public wealth, benefiting only a minority of wealthy people, while our public services crumble and support for the poorest citizens is cut to the bone. So it’s not an inclusive democracy, then."

This is why I follow her.

durhamjen Sun 25-Mar-18 20:16:42

She allows anyone to quote from her blog providing they link back to her blog, which is what I do.
Her blog is ranked number 8 among the top 100 political blogs.

MaizieD Sun 25-Mar-18 20:30:14

So you haven't seen the channel 4 News items or read the Cadwalldr articles that have been published in the guardian/Observer over the past few months, lemon? It's called 'investigative journalism' and is a well recognised route to exposing things that people would rather were hushed up. Remember the Thalidomide scandal? That was exposed by investigative journalism. It has a good and honourable history.