Carole Cadwalladr

Investigative journalist at The Guardian known for her groundbreaking reporting on Cambridge Analytica, Brexit disinformation, and Facebook's role in election interference. Her investigations exposed how Facebook enabled microtargeted political advertising in darkness, illegal campaign spending in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and the international coordination between Trump and Brexit operations.

Sources in this wiki

• Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy (TED 2019 talk)

Topics

• Facebook and disinformation
• Election interference and information warfare
• Computational propaganda

Notes

Cadwalladr's investigation into Cambridge Analytica and Brexit received international recognition for exposing the mechanisms by which Facebook's platform architecture and lack of transparency enable large-scale election interference. Her work was instrumental in Parliament's investigation into platform accountability and influenced subsequent regulatory efforts around platform transparency and electoral integrity.