The director of Vote Leave has denied allegations of links between his campaign and Cambridge Analytica. Dominic Cummings said claims by the Observer newspaper are "factually wrong, hopelessly confused, or nonsensical".
Pretty sure that's a description of the Leave campaign.
Mr Cummings claimed stories alleging links with Vote Leave were being promoted because a "powerful set of people will do anything to try to shift public opinion in order that they can overturn the referendum".
If only that were true ! But I'd be highly skeptical of CA being a major influence in the referendum. Elderly Daily Fail readers living in the countryside don't tend to have Facebook accounts. On the other hand, the vote was so close, they could perhaps be blamed in some sense for the marginal Leave victory, but this wouldn't tackle the root cause of the problem.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43518628
There's been some hints that Leave.eu were involved with CA too. The sort of hints where several people have either outright lied or been unbelievably badly informed about who they were talking to and about what.
ReplyDeleteAlso Farage is known to be pals with the Mercers and Wendi Deng and so on, all of whom are so tangled up in this it's utterly incredible there wasn't something going on.
Between Vote Leave and Leave.eu they didn't need to swing many votes via the internet in order to make the difference. CA isn't the whole problem but I suspect it's enough of a problem to be seriously concerned about.