Dial M for Mueller: Why Brexit Needs an FBI Style Inquiry - with Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes

After the subpoena of a Cambridge Analytica director by the Mueller Inquiry, an explosive UK Parliamentary report explains the role of Facebook in harvesting our deepest secrets and targeting us with dark ads and Russian propaganda  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How did Britain's Nigel Farage go from enjoying 'proper fucking lunches' with his mates in the City to hanging out with Trump? Boosted by Russia? And buddies with Bannon? In this episode, we explore his place at the centre of a web of relationships that connect to the man in Mueller's sights: Roger Stone  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A few days after the important news that Britain's biggest ever political donor is to be investigated by Britain's FBI, Carole and Peter sketch out some of the connections between the EU referendum vote, the election of Donald Trump, and the interference of Vladimir Putin. More psych ops dark ads and dark money to come.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Prize winning Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who broke the Cambridge Analytica story, teams up with host of the hit podcast Untold: the Daniel Morgan Murder, to explore in real time the background and breaking news about the connections between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Britain's historic Brexit vote  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A second whistleblower comes forward In 2013, 23-year old CHRIS WYLIE, a Canadian data scientist who had worked on the Obama campaign, was recruited as head of research for SCL Ltd, a contractor developing military 'information operations' for the US and UK. Within months he met Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer to set up Cambridge Analytica - a 'propaganda machine' designed to win the 2016 US Presidential elections, using Brexit as its 'petri dish'. Now Shahmir Sanni, a young volunteer who worked with the Vote Leave campaign comes forward to allege that the Brexit vote was fixed and - by secretly overspending with a Cambridge Analytica company - the vote was rigged.

In 2013, 23-year old CHRIS WYLIE, a Canadian data scientist who had worked on the Obama campaign, was recruited as head of research for SCL Ltd, a contractor developing military 'information operations' for the US and UK. Within months he met Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer to set up Cambridge Analytica - a 'propaganda machine' designed to win the 2016 US Presidential elections, using Brexit as its 'petri dish'. This is his story. A story that changed the course of US and UK history as Facebook was breached, the Russians got involved, and the tools of cyber warfare were now turned on the countries that developed them.