AggregateIQ

AggregateIQ (AIQ) is a Canadian political consultancy and technology company, based in Victoria, British Columbia. It “integrates, obtains, and normalizes data from disparate so[u]rces".AIQ was founded in 2013 by Zack Massingham, a former university administrator, "turned digital marketing guru", and Christopher Wylie, who went on to work for Cambridge Analytica. As of February 2017, AIQ employed 20 people and was based in downtown Victoria, British Columbia.£3.5 million was spent with AggregateIQ by four pro-Brexit campaigning groups, Vote Leave, BeLeave, Veterans for Britain, and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party. Co-ordination between the groups would have broken UK election law. In May 2018, Facebook told the Commons Select Committee for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport that Vote Leave and BeLeave were targeting the exact same audiences on Facebook via AIQ.AIQ has been employed by John Bolton, before he was Donald Trump's national security adviser, and by US senators Thom Tillis and Ted Cruz.

AIQ created Ripon, Cambridge Analytica’s campaign software platform, which was largely funded by the Cruz campaign.On 6 April 2018, Facebook suspended AggregateIQ from using its platform due to concerns of a possible affiliation with SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. Facebook stated, "In light of recent reports that AggregateIQ may be affiliated with SCL and may, as a result, have improperly received FB user data, we have added them to the list of entities we have suspended from our platform while we investigate."