Newly surfaced e-mails show that the former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, and Cambridge Analytica, the Big Data company that he worked for at the time, were simultaneously incubating both nationalist political movements in 2015.
Emma Briant, an academic expert on disinformation at George Washington University, has unearthed new e-mails that appear to reveal the earliest documented role played by Bannon in Brexit.
The tumultuous fallout has roiled the U.K. ever since, threatening the government of the Conservative Prime Minister, Theresa May.
Banks could not be reached for comment regarding the e-mails, which were first published Saturday by the British Web site openDemocracy.
The precise role played by foreign entities in promoting and possibly funding Brexit has been clouded in mystery and controversy.
Whether foreign funds secretly supported the Brexit movement has become the focus of intense speculation and investigation in the U.K.
While the e-mail chain includes Bannon, there is no evidence that he read or commented on the exchange between the Leave.EU leaders and the Cambridge Analytica executives. »
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