Major new experiment shows how effective Cambridge Analytica, Russian troll farms were in shifting political emotions

November 28, 2025

Peter Jukes: For nearly a decade, sceptics have dismissed allegations that Steve Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Evgeny Prigozhin’s troll farms successfully intervened in the Brexit referendum and Trump’s first presidential election in 2016. But a new study shows how effective their innovations in digital psychological warfare really were…