Carole Cadwalladr
| Carole Cadwalladr link Amazon MuckRack Twitter (Journalist, writer, deep state functionary?) | |
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| File:Carole Cadwalladr.jpg | |
| Born | 1969 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Oxford University/Hertford College |
| Exposed | Cambridge Analytica |
| Interests | democracy, Facebook, SAGE, fake news, Christopher Wylie, Big Tech, mass surveillance |
Journalist who took part in an IfS presentation about "Russian Propaganda". Rose to international prominence in 2018 when she exposed the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal. | |
Carole Cadwalladr is a British journalist and features writer. for The Observer and formerly worked at The Daily Telegraph.[1] She participated in "Tackling Tools of Malign Influence", an event hosted by the Integrity Initiative a few days before they were exposed by the First Integrity Initiative Leak, and around the same time she published her prize-winning Cambridge Analytica stories.[2] Jonathan Cook charged that in June 2022, Carole Cadwalladr and Paul Mason were "unmasked as lap dogs for the security state".[3]
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“I get the impression that Carole Cadwalladr is sufficiently divorced from reality to believe all that she writes. Having done a very good job in investigating the nasty right wing British Establishment tool that was Cambridge Analytica, Cadwalladr became deluded by her own fame and self-importance and decided that her discovery was the key to understanding all of world politics.”
Craig Murray (1 April 2019) Muellergate and the Discreet Lies of the Bourgeoisie [4]
Reporting
Carole Cadwalladr rose to international prominence in 2018 when she exposed the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Operating as whistleblower Christopher Wylie’s de facto publicist[5] and churning out a stream of reports based on his spectacular claims, Cadwalladr won admiring media profiles, an array of journalism awards, and a finalist nomination in the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
But by 2020, it was clear the data trail that would finally prove the Cambridge Analytica influence operation wasn't there. Instead, the British government's Information Commissioner’s Office produced a report[6] that contradicted virtually every major prediction and assertion that Wylie and Cadwalladr made about SCL-Cambridge Analytica and its role in UK politics.[7]
2019 TED talk
In an April 2019 talk at the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference in Vancouver, Cadwalladr dug into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK's super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters — and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election — she called out the "gods of Silicon Valley" asking "Are free and fair elections a thing of the past?"[9]
On 18 April 2019, Cadwalladr tweeted:
- "This is not democracy. Lies spread in darkness paid for with cash from God knows where." Two days ago I accused Facebook of breaking democracy. @TEDchris told them they were free to respond at any time. So far? Nothing but silence...[10]
SAGE
Carole Cadwalladr has reported about SAGE; on 26 April 2020 she tweeted:
"Ben Warner: 2 years ago he was doing physics postdoc. Now he’s a ‘data scientist’ advising govt & sitting on SAGE. His brother, Marc - who worked with Cummings on Vote Leave - won £250m NHS contract when Cummings entered Downing Street. And now the contract for NHS tracking app."[11]
Sued for libel
In January 2022, Arron Banks sued Carole Cadwalladr for libel:
The libel action brought by Arron Banks, the man behind Britain’s biggest political donation, ever, of £8 million to fund the Brexit campaign, against Observer and Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr is big potatoes. At stake are lawyers’ costs of £1.75 million, the ability for reporters to investigate Russian interference in our democracy and free speech in Britain in the 21st Century. If multi-millionaire Banks loses, he may find a way through; if Cadwalladr loses she will go bankrupt.[12]
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References
- ↑ "Carole Cadwalladr is a reporter and feature writer for the Observer"
- ↑ "Beware the Cult of Cadwalladr"
- ↑ "British 'watchdog' journalists unmasked as lap dogs for the security state"
- ↑ Craig Murray's Blog
- ↑ "‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower"
- ↑ "Letter from the Information Commissioner to Julian Knight MP"
- ↑ "The huckster and the hack: UK govt report undermines stars of Cambridge Analytica-Russiagate scandal"
- ↑ "Brexit-Trump-Russia. Same Cambridge Analytica."
- ↑ "Facebook's role in Brexit and the threat to democracy"
- ↑ "Nothing but silence from Facebook"
- ↑ "Ben Warner: 2 years ago he was doing physics postdoc. Now he’s a ‘data scientist’ advising govt & sitting on SAGE"
- ↑ "Arron Banks v Carole Cadwalladr: The First Two Days"