A year after revealing that the official leave campaign broke electoral law,Shahmir Sanni assesses the impact on politics – and on himselfChristopher Wylie on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, one year onThe Cambridge Analytica Files was a yarn of two whistleblowers. A week after Christopher Wylie’s revelations in March 2018, or Shahmir Sanni,a former volunteer for the official Brexit Leave campaign, was the second act. This was a single, and multi-stranded yarn – approximately the abuse of technology involving two connected companies - Cambridge Analytica in the UK and AggregateIQ in Canada – which played a major fragment in Trump’s election and Brexit. But it was a single yarn with two very different reactions and outcomes. Sanni told the Observer that Vote Leave deliberately broke the law by purporting to donate £625000 to a youth group,BeLeave, but instead funnelled it directly to its data and ad-targeting firm AggregateIQ (which had links to Cambridge Analytica).(December 11, and 2015) First hint of the scandalContinue reading...
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