Courtesy of Pam Martens
Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower, Testifies Before British Lawmakers on Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower who has thus far exposed how Steve Bannon and his money-backer, billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer, created Cambridge Analytica, which harvested private data from 50 million Facebook users to help Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, testified for almost four hours this morning before British lawmakers in the Commons Culture Committee. His testimony was explosive at times.
Wylie is testifying before the British lawmakers because the same people and companies involved in the social media data mining and micro-targeting for Trump’s presidential campaign were also involved in the June 23, 2016 Brexit vote in the U.K. where citizens voted in a referendum to take the U.K. out of the European Union.
Wylie testified that a Canadian company, AggregateIQ (AIQ), developed the software for Cambridge Analytica, describing it as a “proxy” firm and “money laundering operation.” He stunned some lawmakers with this testimony:
“AggregateIQ, in part because it was set up and works within the auspices of Cambridge Analytica, inherited a lot of the company’s culture of total disregard for the law…
“This is a company that has worked with hacked material; this is a company that will send out videos of people being murdered to intimidate voters; this is a company that goes out and tries to illicitly acquire live internet browsing data of everyone in an entire country. I think a lot of questions should be asked about the role of AIQ in this election and whether they were, indeed, compliant with the law here.”
Wylie was read a statement by a lawmaker from AIQ’s website where they deny corporate involvement with Cambridge Analytica. Wylie said it is true they are a separate company but he referred to a new article available at Gizmodo which proves that AIQ created Cambridge Analytica’s software. The article, in fact, reveals the alarming information that the code for the software program was left available on a publicly accessible website. (It has since been removed, according to the article.)
Wylie told the British lawmakers that the evidence uncovered in that article shows that there is “tangible proof in the public domain that AIQ actually built Ripon, which is the software that utilized the algorithms from the Facebook data.”
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