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15 October 2020updated 05 Oct 2023 8:23am

How the Cambridge Analytica scandal unravelled

The notion that the contentious British firm played a pivotal role in the Trump and Brexit votes has become ever harder to maintain.

By Laurie Clarke

“It’s like a boomerang. You send your data out, it gets analysed, and it comes back at you as targeted messaging to change your behaviour.”

Brittany Kaiser’s words feature in The Great Hack, a documentary chronicling one of the most explosive scandals to erupt in the past five years: Cambridge Analytica (CA).

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