Carole Cadwalladr

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Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now, co-founder https://t.co/2PIOTFiAi5. Tech justice campaigns @allthecitizens. Personal newsletter on Substack.

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NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by THE NERVE has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

Has anyone seen Nigel Farage MP? He had some things to say about ‘the Russian conspiracy’ that I think we need an update on, no?

Correct! It’s techfascist favourite, Palantir. We’ve found a revolving door of UK officials who’ve gone from the highest levels of government into Peter Thiel’s firm. Transparency experts describe it as an ‘acute risk’ for corruption

TEASER! A new THE NERVE has dropped into your favourite NHS contractor that’s also involved in blowing up schools in Iran. Any guesses which?

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This speech *is* one for the history books. But that’s less a compliment, than a coda. Carney has given us the words to mark the end of the ‘rules-based order’…by acknowledging it never really existed. It was a collective illusion. That now is over.

NEW: The Mandelson-Epstein scandal is also the Mandelson-Palantir scandal. MP Alex Burghart asks why Keir Starmer’s visit to Palantir’s office in Washington - arranged by Mandelson while his firm repped Palantir - was kept off books. 1/

You’ll be shocked to learn Nigel Farage is using me as a punchbag at today’s rally. Of course he is. It was my trial established the facts of Arron Banks’s relationship with the Russian ambassador. Will Labour finally commit to investigating foreign interference in our politics?

So, today @tedtalks announced that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was their most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing &amp; terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.

I gave this TED talk warning Silicon Valley of the profound threat of it posed to democracy nearly 6 years ago. It provoked a lawsuit that caused me years of pain. The UK government did nothing to contain the threat. And here we are.

So Clegg is out. And Zuck goes all in on Trump. Top Facebook PR flak now is guy who helped Kavanaugh through his sexual assault hearing. Please don’t ever forget Clegg’s role in this. He’s an enabling reputation launderer who will always carry the stink

What I want to know is why UK govt swept evidence of years of Kremlin influence operations under the carpet. If you do too, please consider supporting this project. UK broadcasters have utterly failed to cover any part of this story. And we need answers.

Kudos to ⁦Mehdi Hasan⁩. Not only did he invite me on his show to talk about my investigation into Farage’s funders (no UK channel ever did). But he also asked a former colleague of Nathan Gill’s in the EU parliament whether UKIP had ever taken Russian bribes 🔥

‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’ Great work from BBC Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Keep going

This is president of Google - a company accused of illegally harvesting copyrighted work - saying journalists need to learn to use AI or ‘risk missing out’. He’s just been appointed to the board of The Guardian. I hope every journalist in the org watches this &amp; asks: why?

What happened to David Starkey?? From BBC presenter to pushing extreme racist ideology. How did he get here? Watch the clip &amp; then read the great Sangita Myska for THE NERVE

NEW: Sergei &amp; the Westminster Spy Ring. Introducing a new investigative podcast from me &amp; Peter Jukes &amp; Ruth Abrahams about a Russian influence operation at the heart of the British establishment. 1/

Please watch this &amp; see what you make of it. Laura Kuenssberg seems to have a scoop: she reveals Palantir's UK boss was actually *in the middle* of US-UK trade negotiations. But instead of breaking that story &amp; asking hard qs of him &amp; UK govt, he's invited on as a political pundit.

NEW: Please watch this trailer for chilling new doc from director of Netflix’s The Great Hack karim amer. It’s the deeply unsettling story of how a deepfake clip of London mayor Sadiq Khan went viral..&amp; led to violence &amp; bloodshed. Via Zeteo 1/

Also the amazing dystopian thriller 2073 that inspired this post in cinemas across uk tonight with a q&amp;a with me &amp; its brilliant director Asif Kapadia. Details at 2073 dot film

Oh my god. God-level chutzpah from BBC Stalked producer Georgia Catt!! Listen to this. I get to slag off BBC presenter Andrew Neil on the BBC about the BBC’s failure to act on his misogynistic abuse of me 😂😂😂

Thank you so much to Sky News &amp; Katie Spencer for such a great package on the Guardian &amp; Observer's strike. The Guardian has a £1.3 billion trust fund that makes millions of £ in interest a year...but has to sell the Obs in a secret deal to a failing media org by Xmas? Really?!?

This speech is one for the history books. But that’s less a compliment, than a coda. Carney has given us the words to mark the end of the ‘rules-based order’…by acknowledging it never really existed. It was a collective illusion. That now is over.

So, today @tedtalks announced that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was their most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this is what a digital coup looks like.

This is president of Google - a company accused of illegally harvesting copyrighted work - saying journalists need to learn to use AI or ‘risk missing out’. He’s just been appointed to the board of The Guardian. I hope every journalist in the org watches this & asks: why?

What happened to David Starkey?? From BBC presenter to pushing extreme racist ideology. How did he get here? Watch the clip & then read the great Sangita Myska for THE NERVE

NEW: Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring. Introducing a new investigative podcast from me & Peter Jukes & Ruth Abrahams about a Russian influence operation at the heart of the British establishment. 1/

Please watch this & see what you make of it. Laura Kuenssberg seems to have a scoop: she reveals Palantir's UK boss was actually in the middle of US-UK trade negotiations. But instead of breaking that story & asking hard qs of him & UK govt, he's invited on as a political pundit.

NEW: Please watch this trailer for chilling new doc from director of Netflix’s The Great Hack karim amer. It’s the deeply unsettling story of how a deepfake clip of London mayor Sadiq Khan went viral..& led to violence & bloodshed. Via Zeteo 1/

Also the amazing dystopian thriller 2073 that inspired this post in cinemas across uk tonight with a q&a with me & its brilliant director Asif Kapadia. Details at 2073 dot film

Thank you so much to Sky News & Katie Spencer for such a great package on the Guardian & Observer's strike. The Guardian has a £1.3 billion trust fund that makes millions of £ in interest a year...but has to sell the Obs in a secret deal to a failing media org by Xmas? Really?!?