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In March, Cambridge Analytica whistlerblower Chris Wylie implicated the company during testimony before a Parliamentary committee, saying that the company used cooperated with and used information from Cambridge Analytica during the Britain's Leave campaign, and that it might have helped the campaigns sidestep political spending limits.

Denying the charges, the Congress party claimed that the BJP and JD (U) had used data firms affiliated to Cambridge Analytica during the 2014 general elections.

Make America Number One was a major client for Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 campaign, second only to the Trump campaign itself in terms of the money it received.

Make America Number One paid more than $ 1.2 million to Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 election cycle for services including campaign management consulting, web services, and «data acquisition services,» according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.

A Republican digital strategist who worked with Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 campaign told The Daily Beast that Nix should not be viewed as a reliable narrator.

Then - candidate Trump's campaign used Cambridge Analytica during the primaries and in the summer because it was never certain the Republican National Committee would be a willing, cooperative partner.

President Donald Trump's use of social media and firms like Cambridge Analytica during the election was also aggressive.

Vice-president of Cambridge Analytica during referendum period.

According to Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower who worked for Cambridge Analytica during the election, the company mined the data of 50 million Facebook profiles.

The hashtag #DeleteFacebook is trending since the news broke out that data of 50 million users were harvested by the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica during 2016 US presidential elections in a bid to manipulate votes.

Wylie worked for Cambridge Analytica during the period that the data was allegedly obtained, but has characterized his involvement in the ongoing revelations about the company's conduct as whistle - blowing.

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One unanswered question in Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation into whether there was any collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia is whether Russias Internet Research Agency or Russian intelligence used data Cambridge Analytica obtained from Facebook or other sources to help target and time messages during the campaign that were anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Trump and politically and racially divisive.

Cambridge Analytica is being scrutinized for the methods it used during the 2016 presidential election, after executives with the British data firm boasted about their ability to covertly target voters, entrap politicians, and launch propaganda campaigns.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent nearly 10 hours testifying before Congress this week, answering questions about how Facebook mishandled user data during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

More recently, he attended two congressional hearings during which he fielded lawmakers questions about how Facebook let an academic obtain user data and then sell it to the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.

Polling «is not dead,» says Matt Oczkowski of Cambridge Analytica, the analytics team that worked with Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee during the presidential race.

Facebook announced on Friday that Cambridge Analytica, the data - analysis firm that played an important role in Donald Trump's online strategy during the 2016 US election, has been suspended from the social - media platform for mishandling user data.

Had Facebook audited Cambridge Analytica's data holdings, Facebook could have prevented the privacy scandal that has enveloped the company, Sandberg told NBC's Savannah Guthrie during an interview on Friday's Today show, part of which aired Thursday night.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg remained calm under pressure during five hours of questioning by U.S. senators about a series of recent crises culminating with the latest involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that gained access to data about up to 87 million Facebook users.

During the hearing, Zuckerberg directed blame away from Facebook to Cambridge Analytica, saying that his employees had been duped.

Cambridge Analytica is accused of collecting the personal information of 50 million users of the Facebook social network without their consent and would have used it to develop software to predict and influence voter voting during the campaign American election according to the New York Times and the Guardian.

It remains unclear when Mercer's involvement with Cambridge Analytica began, but FEC filings show the company started working with Super Pacs that the secretive conservative donor has backed during the second half of 2014.

Its report about Facebook covering the period from 2015 to 2017 — a time during which Cambridge Analytica may have tapped Facebook data to create «psychographic» profiles of voters — found that Facebook's privacy controls «were operating with sufficient effectiveness,» according to copies of its reviews obtained through open - records requests by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a watchdog group.

The developments come as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to appear in Washington Tuesday for hearings on the data scandal, in which at least 87 million people had their information harvested during the 2016 election cycle by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm.

Wylie left Cambridge Analytica in 2014, and it's not clear how the firm targeted people with misinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign.

In 2014, Cambridge Analytica gained access to the Facebook data of tens of millions of people with a technique widely used during that time to collect information on Facebook users.

During today's session committee chair Damian Collins again made a direct appeal for Zuckerberg to testify, pausing the flow of questions momentarily to cite news reports suggesting the Facebook founder has agreed to fly to Brussels to testify before European Union lawmakers in relation to the Cambridge Analytica Facebook data misuse scandal.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has requested that a data analytics company called Cambridge Analytica turn over internal documents as part of its investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

This was Mr. Zuckerberg's first appearance before Congress, prompted by the revelation that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign, harvested the data of an estimated 87 million Facebook users to psychologically profile voters during the 2016 election.

During his testimony to the House yesterday Zuckerberg was asked by congressman Mike Doyle when exactly Facebook had first learned about Cambridge Analytica using Facebook data — and whether specifically it had learned about it as a result of the December 2015 Guardian article.

Facebook didn't ban Cambridge Analytica when it found out in 2015 that it had received user data from Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, and Zuckerberg called that a mistake during his testimony before the Se

Facebook didn't ban Cambridge Analytica when it found out in 2015 that it had received user data from Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, and Zuckerberg called that a mistake during his testimony before the Senate.

The controversy centers on a firm called Cambridge Analytica and allegations that it may have misused Facebook users» personal information during the 2016 election cycle.

Asked to expand on this point during today's hearing, Kaiser said Cambridge Analytica's internal creative, psychology and data science teams worked together to design questionnaires for deploying on Facebook's platform.

Lawmakers grilled Zuckerberg on issues ranging from Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal to its failure in addressing provocative messages during the most recent Myanmar crisis.

At another point during this week's testimony Zuckerberg was also asked whether any Facebook staff had worked alongside Cambridge Analytica when they were embedded with the Trump campaign in 2016.

During Mr. Kogan's later work for Cambridge Analytica, his Facebook app took data from people who took his questionnaire and from all their friends.

The Guardian story resurfaced after The New York Times revealed Cambridge Analytica used personal information from 50 million Facebook users to target pro-Trump and anti-Clinton ads during the presidential race.

CEO of Cambridge Analytica, Alexander Nix, speaks during the Web Summit, Europe's biggest tech conference, in Lisbon, Portugal, November 9, 2017.

The social network has absorbed criticism in recent months regarding its personal data security liabilities, thanks mainly to the misuse of data from about 87 million people collected on the social network by a research firm, Cambridge Analytica, during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Cambridge Analytica, backed by top Trump donor and hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, was asked in December to turn over documents to special counsel Robert Mueller, as part of his investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

For many, the Cambridge Analytica data is seen as likely connected to the Russian troll farms that targeted U.S. voters with misinformation via social media during the 2016 campaign.

Isikoff then dived into the controversy about Russia's role in the election and the role specifically of Cambridge Analytica, a London - based company that uses data mining and data analysis to create so - called psychographic profiles of voters to predict their vote — and which Parscale had hired during the campaign.

Controversial political consultancy Cambridge Analytica is shutting down following a massive scandal over data it mined from Facebook during the 2016 election.

Cambridge Analytica's chief executive officer faced questions during a meeting with the House Intelligence Committee in December about whether he sought material from WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange that was stolen from computers of the Democratic National Committee and from John Podesta, who chaired Democrat Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

Cambridge Analytica's chief executive officer Alexander Nix gives an interview during the 2017 Web Summit in Lisbon on Nov. 9, 2017.

Facebook and Zuckerberg are currently embroiled in the fallout from a scandal caused by newsthat data firm Cambridge Analytica used data on 50 million individuals that was harvested from a «personality prediction» app on Facebook for political targeting purposes during the 2016 election campaign.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before two Senate committees on Tuesday over the Cambridge Analytica scandal and revelations about the platform's role in the dissemination of Russian disinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Cambridge Analytica previously aided Republican Sen. Ted Cruz during the 2016 presidential primary.

«We believe it is entirely possible that there will be a connection there,» Zuckerberg said when asked if there was overlap between Cambridge Analytica's harvested user data and the political propaganda pushed by the Kremlin - linked Internet Research Agency during the 2016 presidential election, which Facebook has said was seen by some 126 million people.