The inside story of our award-winning investigation into the political consulting firm and its use of Facebook profiles
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Visiting the Observer’s newsroom on the Monday after we published our revelations about the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica this March was to step inside the blast zone of what felt something like the news equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
In the US, the story of how whistleblower Christopher Wylie had built media mogul Steve Bannon’s “psychological warfare tool” by harvesting millions of people’s Facebook profiles had erupted across every news channel. Questions rained in on Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and its boss, Mark Zuckerberg, including the most insistent – where was he?
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