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Традиционно британцев интригует вопрос внушаемости. Поэтому среди них популярны фокусники-менталисты вроде Деррена Брауна и шарлатанские учения вроде НЛП. Неудивителен и интерес к скандалу вокруг Cambridge Analytica и родственных ей компаний, которые пытались манипулировать избирателями, пользуясь их внушаемостью.
На сегодняшних слушаниях в британском парламенте "whistleblower" Кристофер Уайли (Christopher Wylie) поделился сенсационными сведениями о преступной деятельности этих компаний, включая сговор во время агитации за Брекзит.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/fake-news-evidence-17-194/
The EU referendum was won through a fraud, the whistleblower Christopher Wylie has told MPs, accusing Vote Leave of improperly channelling money through a tech firm with links to Cambridge Analytica.
Wylie told a select committee that the pro-Brexit campaign had a “common plan” to use the network of companies to get around election spending laws and said he thought there “could have been a different outcome had there not been, in my view, cheating”.
“It makes me so angry, because a lot of people supported leave because they believe in the application of British law and British sovereignty. And to irrevocably alter the constitutional settlement of this country on fraud is a mutilation of the constitutional settlement of this country.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/27/brexit-groups-had-common-plan-to-avoid-election-spending-laws-says-wylie

Выясняется, что компьютерный код для Cambridge Analytica разрабатывала мутная канадская компания AIQ (AggregateIQ). Она же участвовала в избирательных кампаниях других деятелей, включая сенатора Теда Круза, техасского губернатора Грега Абботта и украинской партии "Основа" донецкого олигарха Сергия Таруты.
AggregateIQ, a British Columbia-based data firm, developed the technology Cambridge Analytica sold to clients for millions of dollars during the 2016 US presidential election. Hundreds if not thousands of pages of code, as well as detailed notes signed by AggregateIQ staff, wholly substantiate recent reports that Cambridge Analytica’s software platform was not its own creation.
What’s more, the files reveal that AggregateIQ—also known as “AIQ”—is the developer behind campaign apps created for Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Texas Governor Greg Abbott, as well as a Ukrainian steel magnate named Serhiy Taruta, head the country’s newly formed Osnova party.
https://gizmodo.com/aggregateiq-created-cambridge-analyticas-election-softw-1824026565
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