U.K. Alleges Facebook-Linked Data Firm CEO Made False Statements
- House of Commons committee to recall Cambridge Analytica CEO
- Alexander Nix’s comments contradict weekend newspaper reports
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The head of a data company accused of improperly using information from Facebook Inc. profiles during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign deliberately misled U.K. lawmakers in testimony last month, the panel’s chairman said Sunday.
Alexander Nix, chief executive officer of London-based Cambridge Analytica, told a House of Commons committee that his company didn’t receive data from Global Science Research Co. That contradicts newspaper reports that it did receive the information and used it to reach U.S. voters with hyper-targeted messaging.