Mapped: Cambridge Analyticas Ties to the Fossil Fuel Industry

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Mapped: Cambridge Analytica’s Ties to the Fossil Fuel Industry
Saturday, April 14, 2018
By Mat Hope, DeSmog UK | Report



Revelations continue to emerge about Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that has found itself embroiled in a scandal around data privacy and electoral manipulation.

Three whistleblowers have gone public in the Guardian and Observer to outline how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to influence the outcomes of the US presidential election and Brexit referendum.

DeSmog UK has previously mapped how the company ties to climate science denial through its Brexit and Trump connections. Now, Nafeez Ahmed over at Motherboard has outlined how Cambridge Analytica has ties to the fossil fuel industry.

Based on that research, it's only a few steps between the company and some of the world's biggest coal and oil companies, many of which have had a revival since the election of Donald Trump. It's only a couple more steps to tie those connections to the already well-established web of power lobbying for Brexit.



MUCH MORE:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/44165-mapped-cambridge-analytica-s-ties-to-the-fossil-fuel-industry

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[Autumn]

1. Congress needs to talk to these people in open hearings

[yardwork]

2. It's very simple, really.