In two news articles last week (“Revealed: the ties that bound Canadian data firm to Leave campaign in referendum” and “Brexit insider claims Vote Leave team ‘may have broken law’”), we are happy to clarify that we did not intend to suggest that AggregateIQ is a direct part and/or the Canadian branch of Cambridge Analytica, or that it has been involved in the exploitation of Facebook data, or otherwise been involved in any of the alleged wrongdoing made against Cambridge Analytica. Further, we did not intend to suggest that AIQ secretly and unethically co-ordinated with Cambridge Analytica on the EU referendum. We are happy to make clear that AggregateIQ is and has always been 100% Canadian owned and operated.

​Matthew Elliot is a former, not current, chief executive and director of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, and was a founder of Business for Britain and BrexitCentral, where he is editor at large, not chief executive. Shahmir Sanni works for the TaxPayers’ Alliance as digital campaign manager, but not on pro-Brexit social media messaging (“In a country where my decision as a voter matters, this is a huge deal”, the New Review, last week).

Victoria, on Vancouver Island, is the capital of British Columbia. Our description “provincial Canadian city” was an awkward compression, not an intended slight. Victoria is 4,760 miles from London, not 2,300 (“Revealed: the ties that bound Canadian data firm to Leave campaign in referendum”, News, last week).

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