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The Cambridge Analytica scandal of 2018 rocked the political world after whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed that the consulting firm—which worked for Donald Trump’s election campaign and the Leave.EU organization during the UK’s European Union referendum, both in 2016—had managed to breach Facebook’s user database and harvest the information of some 87 million individual profiles.
Now, a new document dump connected with the defunct company has uncovered a series of emails and reports linked to Cambridge Analytica’s work in a series of other countries, including Brazil.
Hosted on the Twitter account @HindsightFiles, former Cambridge Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser leaked zip files on the company’s operations in Iran, Malaysia, Kenya, and Brazil, which mention that representatives of the consultancy came to Brazil to work with an unspecified presidential candidate in the lead-up to the 2018 general elections.
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