BREAKING: Cambridge Analytica director 'met Assange to discuss US election'

A Cambridge Analytica director visited Julian Assange in February last year and told friends it was to discuss what happened during the US election.

Brittany Kaiser, a director at the firm until earlier this year, also claimed to have channelled cryptocurrency payments and donations to WikiLeaks. This information has been passed to congressional and parliamentary inquiries in the UK and US.

Cambridge Analytica and WikiLeaks are already subjects of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, but the revelations open up fresh questions about the precise nature of the organisations’ relationship.

There was no known connection until October last year, when it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica had “reached out” to Assange in July 2016 and offered to help him index and distribute the 33,000 emails that had been stolen from Hillary Clinton.

Kaiser is also alleged to have said that she had funnelled money to WikiLeaks in the form of cryptocurrency.

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