The Cambridge Analytica row looks set to move from the US presidential election to the EU referendum. After Christopher Wylie blew the whistle in the Observer and claimed that Cambridge Analytica used questionable Facebook data to win the US election, the paper looks set to re-focus its investigation on the Brexit campaign.
In an 8,000 word blog post, Dom Cummings – the Vote Leave strategist – says that the Observer and Channel 4 investigation has moved onto Brexit. Cummings says that the author behind the investigation – Carole Cadwalladr – has sent Vote Leave figures a list of questions concerning allegations from Wylie along with a number of new whistleblowers. He claims this is all part of an attempt to claim (a) Vote Leave was involved with Cambridge Analytica in a ‘global conspiracy’ involving a nine-month long fight for the designation as the official campaign (b) Vote Leave acted illegally in making donations to a number of campaign groups.
Although the full extent of the Observer and Channel 4 allegations are unknown, Cummings puts in a rather extensive rebuttal.
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