Councillor Andy Swain - Teign Valley (TDC)

14 Feb 2021

Cllr Andy Swain

Andy Swain
Andy Swain

Ward: Teign Valley

Parishes: Ashton ; Bridford ; Christow ; Doddiscombsleigh ; Dunsford ; Hennock ; Tedburn St Mary ; Trusham

Contact information

Mobile:  07756 253908

Email:  andrew.swain@teignbridge.gov.uk

Committee appointments

Term of Office

  • 07/05/2019 - 13/05/2023

Andy's News

Cambridge Analytica Data Dump

On Friday evening a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower dumped over 700 pages of data on the internet. Cambridge Analytica was founded by Steve Bannon and Billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer. The company was eventually closed in disgrace after it was revealed it had hacked over 80 million Facebook accounts. The pages reveal there is more evidence that Nigel Farage and Aaron Banks worked with Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica as Farage fronted Leave EU. What is even more extraordinary though is what the pages reveal happened with the official Vote Leave campaign fronted by Boris Johnson and run by Dominic Cummings. A company called Aggregated IQ, (AIQ), was paid £3.5 million by four pro-Brexit groups including Vote Leave, this is where Vote Leave spent most of its money, £675000 of which was illegally spent on targeted ads. It has been constantly denied that AIQ and Cambridge Analytica had any kind of relationship but this data dump has effectively destroyed those claims, it contains p

18 Oct 2020
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