Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix. Photo: The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe suspended head of UK-based political consultancy Cambridge Analytica reportedly claimed in secretly recorded video that his company played a decisive role in the 2016 election campaign of President Donald Trump. Photo: ReutersBritish broadcaster Channel 4 News mounted a "sting operation" in which it secretly recorded Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix saying he had met the then Republican presidential candidate "many times" and that his firm played a central role in the final months of the campaign. Brad Parscale, the 2016 Trump campaign’s main digital adviser who dealt regularly with Cambridge Analytica, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Nix also was recorded by Channel 4 saying that Cambridge Analytica did not have to reveal to U.S. investigators anything about the company's foreign political campaign clients.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 20, 2018 20:23 UTC