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  • Cambridge Analytica CEO: 'we ran all the digital campaign' for Trump

    1 month ago - By Engadget

    At the same time Cambridge Analytica announced it's suspending CEO Alexander Nix, Channel 4 News released a second report on the company based on undercover videos. In this report, it shows executives claiming that their work was responsible for Trum...
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  • UK firm in Facebook row suspends CEO amid fresh revelations

    1 month ago - By Phys.org

    Cambridge Analytica, the British firm at the centre of a major scandal rocking Facebook, suspended its chief executive Alexander Nix Tuesday, as he became embroiled in fresh controversy and lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic demanded answers over the data breach.
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  • Oxford Analytica wants you to know it has 'no relationship' with that other Analytica company with Cambridge in its name

    Oxford Analytica wants you to know it has 'no relationship' with that other Analytica company with Cambridge in its name

    1 month ago - By Business Insider

    Although Oxford Analytica and Cambridge Analytica sound very similar, the two companies have nothing to do with each other.
    Cambridge Analytica is the scandal-plagued data analytics company with ties to the Trump campaign. Oxford Analytica is a consulting company focused on geopolitical issues.
    "We want people to know that we are not CambridgeAnalytica", read a tweet by Oxford Analytica on Tuesday.
    By now, the name Cambridge Analytica has become very familiar to the general public, following the data analytics firm's unauthorized use of Facebook data and allegations of its CEO's dubious...
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  • New York joins Massachusetts investigation of Facebook's data use

    1 month ago - By Engadget

    All eyes are on Facebook as more and more information rolls out regarding Cambridge Analytica, its involvement in recent elections and forums and how it came to obtain 50 million Facebook users' profile information. Now, New York Attorney General Eri...
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  • Cambridge Analytica nixes its CEO, Alexander Nix

    1 month ago - By Technology Review


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  • Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix Suspended Amid Scandals

    1 month ago - By Wired

    Alexander Nix has been suspended until further notice and replaced by Cambridge's head of data, Alexander Tayler.
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  • Facebook is being investigated by New York and Massachusetts attorneys general over Cambridge Analytica scandal

    Facebook is being investigated by New York and Massachusetts attorneys general over Cambridge Analytica scandal

    1 month ago - By The Verge

    New York and Massachusetts attorneys general are demanding that Facebook hand over information about how Cambridge Analytica used its data. They announced a joint investigation today following reports over the weekend that Cambridge Analytica improperly acquired data on 50 million Facebook users, which it used as part of President Trump's 2016 campaign.
    According to The New York Times and The Observer , the co-founder of Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Wylie, led an initiative starting in 2014 to help political campaigns profile voters. As part of the project, the company harvested data...
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  • Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg reportedly no-shows at Facebook meet - CNET

    1 month ago - By CNET

    The CEO and COO reportedly didn't attend a staff meeting about the social network's relationship with Cambridge Analytica.
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  • Cambridge Analytica suspends chief executive Alexander Nix 

    Cambridge Analytica suspends chief executive Alexander Nix 

    1 month ago - By Telegraph


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  • Cambridge Analytica suspends its CEO after comments about bribery and entrapment

    Cambridge Analytica suspends its CEO after comments about bribery and entrapment

    1 month ago - By The Verge

    The CEO of controversial data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica was suspended today after he was filmed by undercover journalists appearing to encourage the use of beautiful women to entrap politicians as part of election influence campaigns. Alexander Nix will face a “full, independent investigation” of his comments, the company's board said in a press release.
    “In the view of the Board, Mr. Nix's recent comments secretly recorded by Channel 4 and other allegations do not represent the values or operations of the firm and his suspension reflects the seriousness with which we view this...
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  • Cambridge Analytica CEO Andrew Nix has reportedly been suspended

    1 month ago - By TechCrunch

    Andrew Nix, the CEO of the London-based voter profiling company Cambridge Analytica - which harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users without their permission to analyze their voter behavior - has been suspended from his job, according to Bloomberg's David Meyers .
    We've reached out to the company for more information but have yet to hear back from our sources there.
    Nix's suspension won't come as a shock to many, considering footage that was filmed over the last year by Britain's Channel 4 News and which surfaced yesterday. The video comes on the heels of...
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  • Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO Alexander Nix during investigation

    Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO Alexander Nix during investigation

    1 month ago - By Engadget

    As the Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to develop, the company has now announced that its board has suspended CEO Alexander Nix. Cambridge Analytica says that the suspension is immediate and a full, independent investigation will be conducted...
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