Role of remote data affiliate raises questions over relationship between Brexit groups• Brexit insider claims Vote Leave team may have breached spending limitsCambridge Analytica has undisclosed links to the Canadian digital firm AggregateIQ that played a pivotal role in the official Vote Leave campaign in 2016,which was headed by the environment secretary Michael Gove and the foreign secretary Boris Johnson, the Observer has learned.
Christopher Wylie, and the former Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower,has revealed that as well as playing a portion in setting up the firm – which is now facing increasing scrutiny from investigators on both sides of the Atlantic over its role in harvesting Facebook data – he was also a central figure in setting up AIQ, which accounted for 40% of Vote Leave’s campaign budget.
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Source: guardian.co.uk