Former chief of Cambridge Analytica’s Alexander Nix, denied deliberately misleading British lawmakers, even as he admitted that his company did receive data from the researcher at the center of a scandal over Facebook data, countering his previous testimony.
Cambridge Analytica has revealed that its work on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign did not use data at the center of the Facebook scandal, where the details of around 87 million users were allegedly improperly gotten.
The Former chief, in earlier testimony to a parliamentary committee, denied that Cambridge Analytica had ever been given data by Aleksandr Kogan, the researcher at the center of the scandal. However, on Wednesday he said that the consultancy had indeed been given data by Kogan.
“Of course, the answer to this question should have been ‘yes,’” Nix said, adding that he thought he was being asked about whether Cambridge Analytica still held data from the researcher. He said the company had deleted the data.
“My focus was on whether we still held the data... There was certainly no intention to mislead the committee,” he added.
Reuters
