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Carole Cadwalladr

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Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now, co-founder . Tech justice campaigns @allthecitizens. Personal newsletter on Substack.

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1Nov 10, '24Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the a23.1×5.6M36k16k16k
2Aug 10, '25Entire news crew wiped out: 2 journalists + 2 cameramen. Killed by Israel which has killed more journalists than died in WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Afghanistan & Yugoslavia combined.14.5×3.5M88k33k3k
3Nov 6, '24Democracy died in darkness.11.2×2.7M17k1.8k326
4Oct 2, '20A reminder to all Americans that the net effect of our prime minister catching COVID-19 was that it prompted a surge of patriotic support. From which he emerged with renewed popula8.2×090k29k1.2k
5Feb 10, '25This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Mus7.3×1.8M29k10k2.2k
6Feb 27, '22Ok. Deep breath. I think we may look back on this as the first Great Information War. Except we're already 8 years in. The first Great Information War began in 2014. The invasion o6.9×059k22k8.5k
7Jun 13, '22It hasn’t sunk in yet but…SOME NEWS. I am so profoundly grateful & relieved. Thank you to the judge, my stellar legal team & the 29,000 people who contributed to my legal d6.2×083k13k357
8Jul 13, '18Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Rob6.1×048k33k1.8k
9Aug 18, '24America needs to learn the terrifying lesson of the British riots. This was Musk’s trial balloon for the US election. The prospect of political violence is real. And Musk’s behavio5.3×1.3M14k6.6k1.2k
10Jul 27, '24They came after me with the cat lady shit too. So please just sit down & listen. Misogyny is one of the deadliest weapons on earth. Misogyny is electoral interference. Misogyny4.6×1.1M18k5.7k752
11Jun 10, '25More journalists killed in Gaza than World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, Yugoslavia & Afghanistan combined4.6×1.1M24k11k1.4k
12Sep 26, '25What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve_news We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please 4.6×1.1M11k5.2k443
13Mar 31, '22One month before Russia invaded Ukraine, I stood trial at the High Court. And now I wait, in purgatory, to be judged. But I believe this trial and the silence around it - & all3.8×036k14k1.5k
14Mar 19, '18If you are watching the Cambridge Analytica story unfold, please please support our journalism. We’ve fought off 3 legal threats from CA & 1 from Facebook. It’s a whole year’s 3.8×037k17k161
15Oct 23, '19Be still my beating heart..@aoc asks Zuckerberg the question. I & others (notably @jason_kint) have been asking for a loooong time. When exactly did he first learn about Cambri3.7×043k12k1.4k
16Apr 17, '193 years ago, I was utterly unable to speak in public. I took betablockers to speak at my own father’s funeral. And on Monday I did this. Love me, loathe me...whatever. But human to3.6×040k12k1.1k
17Mar 18, '22Britain has a Russia problem. And his name is Nigel Farage. Today, Ofcom finally banned RT. 8 long years after Russia illegally invaded Crimea. But this is their man. RT - whose ed3.4×027k16k1.2k
18Mar 5, '25This 2018 tweet has been going constantly viral for the past week..it’s almost as if people have suddenly realised there’s some sort of connection 🧐3.1×746k21k9.1k855
19Mar 3, '22NEW: Boris Johnson awards Gavin Williamson a knighthood. Why *now*? In middle of Russian crisis? He was appointed defence secretary in Nov 2017 at exact moment, FBI revealed its Tr2.9×023k11k1.6k
20Aug 4, '24This should be our Dunblane moment. Only with social media not guns. @elonmusk is a feckless billionaire whose algorithms pose an imminent threat to life. He won’t act. So it’s cri2.9×698k13k3.9k370
21Apr 10, '20I’m going to bed. But it’s unbelievable that nearly 1,000 people died today. Someone’s mother, father, brother, sister, son. Meanwhile parliament is on its hols & BBC breathles2.8×035k9.3k79
22Jul 17, '22My jaw hit the floor when I discovered Boris Johnson left an emergency NATO meeting after the Kremlin’s chemical warfare attack on Britain & flew to an off-the-books meeting wi2.6×024k11k1.3k
23Nov 26, '19‘It takes only 2-5 years to destabilise a nation...The next stage is crisis. It may take only 6 weeks’ Listen to this ex KGB agent’s eerily prescient account of ‘active measures’ o2.5×017k12k1.8k
24May 27, '20This is astonishing. Hot on heels of Newsnight comes this. The government is now literally using our money to *pay* the Daily Mail to publish pro-government propaganda pieces about2.5×023k11k307
25Jul 4, '20Typhoid Nigel strikes again. Less than 2 weeks after returning from US. Not yet out of quarantine. Illegally infecting a pub near you2.5×031k7.6k75
26Sep 9, '20This morning please remember that we are leaving Europe on the back of a vote that we know was illegally subverted. By individuals in this government. They broke the law. They were2.3×026k8.1k101
27Apr 26, '20Ben Warner: 2 years ago he was doing physics postdoc. Now he’s a ‘data scientist’ advising govt & sitting on SAGE. His brother, Marc - who worked with Cummings on Vote Leave - 2.3×018k11k541
28May 20, '19Polite request to @BBCPolitics. Is this fair? To allow people I’ve been investigating like Banks & Phillips, below, a platform to slag me off on air? Without revealing she work2.3×022k9.9k288
29Jun 12, '22Verdict tomorrow. Win or lose, it's a dark day for press freedom in the UK. Singling out a journalist from their news organisation and putting them on trial is not what happens in 2.2×027k5.4k242
30Jun 19, '22It did almost crush me. The only reason it didn't is because of my amazing lawyers & the generosity of 28,887 people. But here's what you don't know. The judgment is *extraordi2.2×023k8k1.2k
31Jun 25, '21BREAKING: man who had affair & misused public funds on his mistress stands by man who had affair & misused public funds on his mistress2.2×029k6.5k61
32Dec 12, '19This is not the worst. Worst is yet to come. But a story: 2 months ago, I hit deep low. Realised: journalism had failed. Authorities had failed. Politics had failed. But..now I thi2.1×028k6.3k152
33Apr 28, '20‘Some countries talked about herd immunity as a strategy. In New Zealand we never ever considered that. Herd immunity would have meant 10s of 10000s of New Zealanders dying & I2.1×024k7.6k236
34Mar 16, '22I don’t think the people who have cheerleaded this man, who have repeated his talking points & helped his political objectives should have a way back from this. He’s just calle2.1×024k6.9k755
35May 26, '19Here he is. Re-elected. Again. The idea that the Brexit Party is a ‘new’ party is a total fiction. It’s just the latest host body for Farage - the tapeworm of British politics.2.1×025k6.2k32
36Mar 2, '22So, do I have this straight? The best known oligarch in Britain & billionaire owner of Chelsea FC who tried to sue investigative journalist @CatherineBelton for writing about h2.1×026k6.8k142
37May 23, '20Why does the Cummings story matter? And what does it obscure? The real story is the huge transfer of government assets to private companies that he is overseeing under cover of a p2.1×018k9.7k472
38Mar 29, '19Hahahahahaha!!! Omg. The TIMING! On the day Britain was set to leave European Union, the official campaign finally admits it broke the law. Deliberately. Massively. And overseen by2.0×018k10k108
39Mar 17, '18BREAKING: It's taken a long & exhausting year to get Christopher Wylie out and on the record. Here, finally, is his truly extraordinary insider's view of making 'Steve Bannon's2.0×015k9.4k581
40Jun 2, '19Who backs Nigel Farage? Arron Banks. What business is Arron Banks in? Insurance. Who will profit from the privatisation of the NHS? He will. Make no mistake. This is coming.1.9×015k10k114
41Apr 14, '19‘I don’t care how elected they were. So was the far right in Germany.’ Please watch this. Every day the hate politics of the far right is being normalised in Britain. This was phen1.9×020k6.9k223
42Nov 8, '19Please watch Lord Puttnam dropping a truth bomb in the Irish parliament. Boris Johnson is *personally* blocking Russia report because ‘it begs real questions about legitimacy of th1.9×015k9.8k324
43May 5, '19Bank holiday reflections: I’ve worked flat-out on this for 2.5 years. It’s triggered multiple investigations & billion $ fines. But I’m in @guardian bubble. Most of UK still en1.9×014k9.1k635
44Jul 23, '22I don’t usually post personal stuff but just look at this sweet face. This is Meg the collie cross in her final hours yesterday after 14 years service as hiking companion, watchdog1.8×033k65158
45Apr 12, '20Failing to hold Dominic Cummings & Boris Johnson to account: what I learned. You have to act now. After the event is after the event. You’ll be told to ‘move on’, to ‘get over 1.8×021k6.5k176
46Nov 3, '19Wow. Extraordinary interview with Conservative MP Dominic Grieve on report Boris Johnson has blocked on Russian interference. ‘What Number 10 has said is not true. It’s a lie’1.8×015k8.7k237
47Dec 29, '20I went to a DARPA robotics challenge in 2015 & the robots could barely walk in a line without falling over. And now...1.8×016k4.7k989
48Sep 3, '20After British citizens were attacked by a chemical weapon, Boris Johnson left a NATO summit on Russian sanctions, gave his security detail the slip, flew to Italy & met an ex K1.8×018k7.8k159
49Jun 27, '21It’s not a resignation, it’s an execution. Someone has been sitting on that footage for a long time. So why now? To what end?1.8×027k2.7k152
50Feb 17, '19NEW: Cambridge Analytica employee who worked on Brexit is subpoeaned by Robert Mueller. This is BIG. Brittany Kaiser - who sat next to @arron_banks at LeaveEU launch - becomes subj1.7×015k8.4k211
51Dec 9, '19They're not "sources". They're senior politicians/aides spreading misinformation. That is now the story. Who are they? You have the facts. It is literally your job to report them.1.7×020k6.8k37
52Feb 24, '22If you’re waking up, it’s worse than anyone imagined. Strikes across entire country. So much of this is on us. We laundered Putin’s money. We provided safe harbour for his chums. A1.7×019k6.4k424
53May 31, '20‘How will I know if someone rings me from track & trace & tells me to isolate, that they are genuine’ John from Gloucester. Jenny Harries, deputy CMO: ‘It will be very obvi1.7×017k4.1k100
54Aug 4, '20Oh my god1.7×017k4.6k626
55Dec 28, '19‘Democracy won’t end with tanks on the streets. It’ll end with hollowed-out institutions that bear the same names but no longer function.’ The police, our electoral laws, our regul1.7×018k7k332
56Oct 17, '20⚠️⚠️⚠️And there it is⚠️⚠️⚠️ In black & fucking white. A legal contract with Donald Trump 'AggregateIQ - IN PARTNERSHIP WITH - Cambridge Analytica' 2 companies Operating togethe1.7×015k7.6k583
57Aug 29, '20Facebook is a malignant global power destroying liberal democracy - when I said this at TED, it seemed to genuinely shock Silicon Valley. 16 months on, everyone now sees it. But we1.7×014k7.5k861
58Jan 22, '22It’s an obscenity that the machinery of the British legal system can be used to target & harass journalists. This has to stop. I am profoundly grateful to Gavin Millar QC for s1.7×024k3.5k107
60Mar 21, '19A German TV reporter appears at @guardian for an interview. "You're doing a whole hour on Brexit crimes?" I say. No British broadcaster has done that. "In Germany, we think this is1.6×015k7.8k144
61Jan 19, '224 years of abuse. 2.5 years of legal harassment. 3 brutal days on stand. It was designed to crush me. And it might.1.6×023k2.6k192
62Mar 3, '22The Germans are seizing yachts. The French are seizing yachts. Meanwhile, Britain is letting oligarchs quietly put their affairs in order before slipping out of the country. If you1.6×016k6.6k86
63Mar 13, '22NEW: Johnson's relationship with Lebedev snr, isn't a scandal. It's a profound national security failure. We need to understand Skripal poisoning was a mass murder narrowly averted1.5×015k6.4k465
65May 29, '20This was so powerful. As @BorisJohnson came out to clap, Dr @meenalsworld & her colleagues turned their backs & held a 237 second silence. One for every healthcare worker w1.5×015k6.8k84
66Dec 19, '20Blame the virus. Blame the people for breaking the rules. Blame the tiers for ‘not working’. Blame the mutant variation. Two words: New Zealand1.5×022k3k84
67Oct 26, '19It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up...always, always, always. This week @aoc brought the 🔥🔥🔥. And here’s why I think there’s trouble ahead for Zuck. This isn’t the end of the 1.5×017k5.1k299
68Aug 28, '19America, if you are waking up to this news and wondering what on earth is going on in Britain, you're not the only ones. Imagine you've got Trump and then he shut Congress. That's 1.5×016k5.7k66
69Mar 9, '21OMG. I am dying. I am deceased. The greatest £63 I have ever spent.1.5×018k2.3k750
70Aug 2, '19Arron Banks cannot win. Journalists cannot be bullied. We must & will fight back. I’m launching this today because we urgently need more journalism not less. The fight back sta1.4×014k5.8k175
71Mar 19, '18Wow. Britain's Information Officer announces she is seeking a warranting to raid Cambridge Analytica and seize servers1.4×015k5.5k18
72Dec 2, '20This is an extraordinary speech. Anger & despair & moral clarity from Georgia’s top election official1.4×015k3.9k556
73Mar 15, '22Oh my god. @RhonddaBryant has just called for Arron Banks to be sanctioned! Quotes Isabel Oakeshott calling him "an agent of influence for the Russian state".1.4×017k4.7k186
74Mar 11, '22I began investigating Brexit-Trump-Russia 5 years ago. And tonight, I was asked about it for first time ever in broadcast interview. Not a British broadcaster, obviously, but thank1.4×016k5k384
75Oct 25, '19Oh! She’s on fire. Zuck’s answers to qs about Cambridge Analytica were ‘strange & bizarre’ & she will follow up. Thank you from Britain, @aoc. We’ve had no chance. He’s in 1.4×018k4k304
76Jul 5, '21Wrong on lockdown. Wrong on care homes. Wrong on Christmas. Wrong on Kent variant. Wrong on the Delta variant. Wrong on flights. Now making all-in bet on unprecedented strategy of 1.4×016k4.8k96
77Nov 9, '19‘You can laugh as much as you like. You haven’t got the courage to stand as the leader of your own party’ 👏👏👏 Ebbw Vale man takes down Nigel Farage1.4×017k4.2k192
78Mar 5, '22"only now beginning to realise"😂1.3×018k3.6k112
79Mar 6, '21This relentless public bullying going on in plain sight is grotesque & shameful. It’s a stain on us as a country that we are just standing by & watching it1.3×019k2.4k68
80Jun 3, '19It's the small things like a giant penis mown into a field on the Stansted flightpath that give me hope. Well done, Britain.1.2×015k3.5k76
81Dec 20, '20LITERALLY TRAPPED ON BREXIT ISLAND 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱1.2×018k1.8k45
83Feb 26, '22This is Roman Abramovich’s daughter. More power to her. Hope the other oligarch offspring follow her lead (also Chelsea fans)1.2×017k3k117
84Sep 28, '20OMFG. Voters in Wisconsin being presented with their Cambridge Analytica psychographic profiles. Holy mother fuck. The tech bros who dismissed this for YEARS are going to DIE tonig1.2×014k4.2k353
85Mar 11, '22‘Is it right to seize people’s assets without any form of due process?’ Nigel Farage defends Abramovich. One of the greatest of failures of last 10 years has been failure to see Fa1.2×014k3.4k147
86Nov 13, '20Well, I for one, am sad that Cummings is going. He’s the living link to Vote Leave corruption. The reminder that the same govt that is bringing you Brexit, mass death & billion1.2×015k2.9k100
87Jun 3, '22You have not been sued for libel. I have. There are many things I have wanted to say in the last 6 weeks of #DeppvHeard But I haven't. Because whatever I say will be used to attack1.2×014k3k699
88Oct 22, '19No offence to Laura, but we’ve learned the hard way. This literally means fuck all. It’s not even fake news, it’s non news. Non-verifiable, non-accountable, non-sense. Quote on the1.2×014k3.9k48
89Feb 21, '22Can you see it now?1.2×014k3.8k189
90Mar 11, '22I know it might seem words are cheap, but they’re not. Anyone who’s ever dared to stick up for me pays a very heavy price. @hughlaurie & @GaryLineker didn’t have to take on my 1.2×018k1.9k76
91Apr 10, '20GIVE. THEM. PROTECTIVE. EQUIPMENT. NOT. GRATITUDE1.2×015k3.7k15
92May 30, '20From March 12-23, I was among those seriously alarmed at govt failure to act. Was repeatedly told I was ‘scaremongering’ & tone was ‘inappropriate’. I hope my tweets today are 1.1×014k3.6k33
94Dec 3, '19Banks v Cadwalladr First hearing tomorrow. (Judge to decide meaning of words.) Thank you to the many 1000s of people who have supported me so far. It’s so important & means so 1.1×015k2.3k30
95Jan 23, '20Right. I have some GOOD NEWS! That legal case that Arron Banks is bringing against me? The one described as a "chilling" threat to journalism by press freedom organisations? He's d1.0×015k2.1k26
96Mar 8, '21I've mostly resisted jumping on the Piers Morgan hateathon today. Because he didn't 'cross a line'. He's been tap-dancing across that line for not months but years - bullying women1.0×016k1.7k29
97Jun 15, '21You were named in a UNESCO report for the misogynistic attack you directed at me. It mainstreamed abuse that continues to this day. You never retracted. You never apologised.1.0×014k2.6k59
98Feb 16, '20Many of us don’t blame you. But we’ve seen you bully women on here, spoken out & been driven back. You’ll respond to this by claiming *I’m* bullying *you* as you always do but 1.0×015k2k26
99Jun 11, '20One down. One to go.0.9×014k1.6k19
100Jan 14, '22The weirdest day. I cannot tell you how much I did not want to fight this case. How much I did not want to be in court today. All I can say is that when the chips are down, people 0.9×015k1.4k63
101Nov 7, '20Retired golfer meets ex-radio DJ0.9×014k1.6k18

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