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Journalist behind Cambridge Analytica story launches crowd-funder after libel threat

Journalist behind Cambridge Analytica story launches crowd-funder after libel threat

5 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/02/journalist-behind-cambridge-analytica-story-launches-crowd-funder-after-libel-threat/

There have been millions of words written about the story of how Cambridge Analytica (CA) was employed by the Trump campaign to affect the 2016 U.S. election and the U.K.’s Brexit referendum via the use of millions of Facebook profiles it had illegally bought, not least our recent review and analysis of the recent Netflix documentary about that saga. The controversy became so big that Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was dragged before Congress and multiple legal investigations are still ongoing.

A major player in that movie and the ongoing story was, and still is, Pulitzer-nominated Carole Cadwalladr, the freelance Guardian newspaper journalist who was the first to tease apart the mess of threads linking CA, Trump and Brexit.