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Nigeria: Cambridge Analytica Used Graphic Video to Smear Buhari
Daily Trust, 6 April 2018
Cambridge Analytica used graphic anti-Islamic images in 2015 to influence the presidential election in Nigeria, according to video obtained by The Guardian and testimony by… Read more »
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Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan 'Unaware' of PDP's Use of Cambridge Analytica
Guardian, 5 April 2018
Nigerian former President Goodluck Jonathan "wasn't aware" of any use of Cambridge Analytica by his party in the country's elections, his spokesman said Thursday. Read more »
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Nigeria: More Facts Emerge On How Cambridge Analytica Used Violent Video Before Nigeria's Election
This Day, 5 April 2018
Cambridge Analytica sought to influence the Nigerian presidential election in 2015 by using graphically violent imagery to portray a candidate as a supporter of Sharia law who… Read more »
Nigeria to Probe Cambridge Analytica Role in 2007, 2015 Elections
The government will launch an investigation into the alleged improper involvement by UK political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica in the country's 2007 and 2015 elections. Presidential Spokesperson Garba Shehu has said that the investigation could lead to criminal prosecutions. According to reports, Cambridge Analytica worked with Israeli hackers who were instructed to "get dirt" on Muhammadu Buhari during the presidential campaign.
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Nigeria: Govt to Probe Cambridge Analytica Attacks On Nigeria
Leadership, 2 April 2018
The federal government is scrutinizing the reports of the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, which swiped the data of more than 50 million Facebook users to sway elections in… Read more »
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Nigeria: Govt to Launch Probe Into 2007, 2015 Elections Over SCL-Cambridge Analytica
DW, 2 April 2018
Cambridge Analytica affiliate SCL Elections is to be investigated for improper involvement in elections and personal data-hacking of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. Charges… Read more »
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Nigeria: Govt Probes Hacking of President's Profile
Daily Trust, 2 April 2018
The Federal Government has raised a committee to scrutinise reports of a data mining firm, Cambridge Analytica, which swiped the data of over 50 million Facebook users to sway… Read more »
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Nigeria: Global Research Fellow Urges Judges to Be Pro-Active in Interpretation of Laws
Guardian, 5 April 2018
Legal practitioner and 2017 Global Research Fellow of International Center for Not for profit Law (ICNL) Washington DC, Solomon Okedara has urged Judges to be pro-active in the… Read more »
InFocus
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Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy specialising in mining and analysing data is accused of interfering in elections in Nigeria and Kenya. Their claims are overstated, the ... Read more »
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Former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie says Israeli firm Black Cube hacked into President Muhammadu Buhari's private medical and financial records via his emails. ... Read more »
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Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie has told a British parliamentary committee that his predecessor, Dan Muresan who died in a Kenyan hotel room in 2012, may have ... Read more »
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Mark Turnbull, the managing director of Cambridge Analytica's Political Global, says they engineered a digital campaign that painted President Uhuru Kenyatta in a positive light ... Read more »
