Cambridge Analytica Data Dump
On Friday evening a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower dumped over 700 pages of data on the internet.
Cambridge Analytica was founded by Steve Bannon and Billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer. The company was eventually closed in disgrace after it was revealed it had hacked over 80 million Facebook accounts.
The pages reveal there is more evidence that Nigel Farage and Aaron Banks worked with Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica as Farage fronted Leave EU.
What is even more extraordinary though is what the pages reveal happened with the official Vote Leave campaign fronted by Boris Johnson and run by Dominic Cummings.
A company called Aggregated IQ, (AIQ), was paid £3.5 million by four pro-Brexit groups including Vote Leave, this is where Vote Leave spent most of its money, £675000 of which was illegally spent on targeted ads.
It has been constantly denied that AIQ and Cambridge Analytica had any kind of relationship but this data dump has effectively destroyed those claims, it contains proof they were in actual fact in partnership with each other.
What does this seem to prove? That Cambridge Analytica, a company founded by Steve Bannon and hedge fund manager Robert Mercer and that was disbanded for illegally hacking millions of Facebook accounts DID intervene in the Brexit referendum.
It would be very interesting to know what our Brexit supporting MP, Andrew Murrison thinks about this.
It would be very interesting to know whether he thinks foreign companies funded by foreign billionaire hedge fund managers, interfering in our democratic votes is conducive to his assertion Brexit was about "taking back control".
And it would be very interesting to understand exactly what it would take for him to stand up and defend our democracy against foreign interference and corruption.
We await his response.