An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers.
Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica – the data company that credits itself with Donald Trump’s presidential victory – have been secretly filmed saying they could entrap politicians in compromising situations with bribes and Ukrainian sex workers.
In an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News, the company’s chief executive Alexander Nix said the British firm secretly campaigns in elections across the world. This includes operating through a web of shadowy front companies, or by using sub-contractors.
In one exchange, when asked about digging up material on political opponents, Mr Nix said they could “send some girls around to the candidate’s house”, adding that Ukrainian girls “are very beautiful, I find that works very well”.
In another he said: “We’ll offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance, we’ll have the whole thing recorded, we’ll blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the Internet.”
Offering bribes to public officials is an offence under both the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Cambridge Analytica operates in the UK and is registered in the United States.
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In the meetings, the executives boasted that Cambridge Analytica and its parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) had worked in more than two hundred elections across the world, including Nigeria, Kenya, the Czech Republic, India and Argentina.
The company is at the centre of a scandal over its role in the harvesting of more than 50 million Facebook profiles.
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Revealed: Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians https://t.co/EuidJUqbAJ via @Channel4News
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 19, 2018
Wow. Britain's Information Officer announces she is seeking a warranting to raid Cambridge Analytica and seize servers
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 19, 2018
What is Facebook doing at Cambridge Analytica's offices tonight??? Good question from MP @DamianCollins. This should be a matter for the authorities, he says. Exactly. Also #WheresZuck?
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 19, 2018
Breaking: Channel 4 just announced they’re airing another undercover film tomorrow where Cambridge Analytica say they won the election for Donald Trump and describe how. This is a car crash airing live on TV. Journalism matters.
— Kevin Beaumont, Esquire (@GossiTheDog) March 19, 2018
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