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Data row: Result of Brexit vote could have been different, says Christopher

Brexit campaigners have denied any wrongdoing

Christopher Wylie
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Christopher Wylie, data misuse whistle-blower

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Whistle-blower Christopher Wylie told British lawmakers that the Brexit referendum could have gone the other way if rules hadn’t been broken during the campaign.
 
“I think it is completely reasonable to say that there could’ve been a different outcome in the referendum if there hadn’t been, in my view, cheating,” said Wylie, a former contractor at Cambridge Analytica who is now at the heart of the Facebook scandal.
 
He was giving evidence to a parliamentary committee that’s investigating allegations first reported by the Observer that information on millions of Facebook users was scooped up without their consent. Brexit

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