Cambridge Analytica Affiliate Gave John Bolton Facebook Data, Documents Indicate
- Parliament releases trove of whistleblower documents, emails
- Evidence bolsters claims U.K. company didn’t destroy data
John Bolton.
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A British company at the heart of the Facebook Inc. data-privacy scandal agreed to give a political action committee founded by John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump’s newly appointed national security adviser, data harvested from millions of Facebook users, documents released by Parliament show.
The papers were provided by whistle-blower Christopher Wylie, a former employee of both Cambridge Analytica and its affiliate company SCL Elections, part of London-based SCL Group. The U.K. Committee on Digital, Culture, Media and Sports released the documents Thursday, which include more than 120 pages of business contracts, emails and legal opinions.