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Cambridge Analytica tried to sway Nigeria’s last elections with Buhari’s hacked emails

Cambridge Analytica tried to sway Nigeria’s last elections with Buhari’s hacked emails

New information on the operations of embattled data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica suggests it had a controversial role in Nigeria’s presidential election in 2015. A report by The Guardian says Cambridge Analytica, hired by an unnamed Nigerian billionaire to work on the re-election campaign of then-president Goodluck Jonathan, “was paid an estimated £2 million ($2.8…