Executives at Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, advertised campaign tactics—such as entrapping political opponents with bribes and sex—in a sales pitch captured by undercover journalists at British broadcaster Channel 4. In a series of meetings between November and January with Cambridge Analytica Chief Executive Alexander Nix and Mark Turnbull, the managing director of the company’s international political operation, a Channel 4 reporter posed as a “fixer” for a client...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 19, 2018 23:39 UTC