[DAWN] Cambridge Analytica’s former chief denied deliberately misleading British politicians, even as he admitted that his firm did receive data from the researcher at the centre of a scandal over Facebook data, contradicting his previous testimony.
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’s presidential campaign did not use data at the centre of the Facebook scandal, where the details of around 87 million users were allegedly improperly obtained.
Former chief Alexander Nix, in earlier testimony to a parliamentary committee, denied that Cambridge Analytica had ever been given data by Aleksandr Kogan, the researcher at the centre of the scandal. However,
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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.
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