Sentences with phrase «undercover reporters»

Alexander Nix, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, was seen on tape talking to undercover reporters from Channel 4 News saying that his operatives would never be caught because they worked all over the world using a number of front organizations.

Per the Financial Times, Cambridge Analytica's damage control efforts have included attempts to halt a Channel 4 interview between Nix and undercover reporters in which the CEO «talks unguardedly about its practices.»

«It may be that we have to contract under a different name — a different entity with a different name so that no record exists with our name attached to it at all,» he explained to the undercover reporters.

Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix was suspended last week after he was caught by undercover reporters saying that the company would help clients bribe or entrap political candidates in sex scandals, though it's not clear whether the company has actually pulled off any such schemes in the past.

Cambridge Analytica's CEO has been filmed by Channel 4 News telling undercover reporters how he ran Donald Trump's digital campaign in the 2016 US presidential election.

Executives from Cambridge Analytica spoke to undercover reporters from Channel 4 News about the dark arts used by the company to help clients, which included entrapping rival candidates in fake bribery stings and hiring prostitutes to seduce them.

Bosses tell undercover reporters how honey traps, spies and fake news can be used to help clients

«He acknowledged discussing a fee of # 30,000 with the undercover reporters but said: «I am not aware of having offered to do anything for these people that was outside the rules.»

Unless we decide to submit the piece to a regular journal, with all the complications of delay, possibly quixotic editors and reviewers that is the best we can do, and I think it would be fine to call it a peer review,» Happer wrote in an email to undercover reporters.

Professor William Happer, who sits on the Academic Advisory Council of the GWPF, was asked by undercover reporters if he could put a (fictional) oil - industry - funded report through the same peer review process as previous GWPF foundation reports that had been called «thoroughly peer reviewed.»

The newspaper said its undercover reporters went to 13 meetings organised by exam boards used by English schools.

The newspaper sent undercover reporters to 13 professional development seminars organised by boards used by English schools, where the Welsh exam board has become more popular in recent years.

In 2012, Elbit's British chairman, retired Lt Gen Richard Applegate, boasted to undercover reporters who secretly taped him of the consultancy's role in lobbying MPs.

A Conservative Party spokesman said Zenith was the name of the company the undercover reporters pretended to represent.

The senior Conservative told undercover reporters from this newspaper and Channel 4's Dispatches, to be broadcast on Monday night, that he would submit questions to ministers on behalf of a paying client, without revealing their identity.

Cambridge Analytica's CEO has been filmed by Channel 4 News telling undercover reporters how he ran Donald Trump's digital campaign in the 2016 US presidential election.

A senior Conservative minister has become the first member of the government to back proposals to field coalition candidates at the next general election.His comments to The Sunday Telegraph came as both parties began a battle to bolster the coalition in the wake of a week of damaging revelations made by Vince Cable and other Lib Dem ministers to undercover reporters.

Vince Cable today broke his silence to speak of how a sting by undercover reporters had caused «great damage» to the confidential relationship between MPs and constituents.

Lord Laird, the Ulster Unionist peer who was investigated by the BBC's Panorama programme, should face a four - month suspension after he was found to have offered to help undercover reporters set up an all - party parliamentary group in return for payment, the Lords committee for privileges and conduct said.

Former Conservative party treasurer Peter Cruddas apologises for his comments to undercover reporters that party donors could buy influence at Downing Street.

Their monthly supplement - «Russia Beyond the Headlines» isn't an incisive investigative look at Putinist corruption, nor a crack team of undercover reporters exposing the Kremlin - funded far - right gangs supported by Putin.

A Sunday Times sting operation caught the peers telling undercover reporters they could set up an all - party group to represent its interests.

Cambridge Analytica said that Channel 4 «edited and scripted» the report to «grossly misrepresent» the conversations between the undercover reporters and the company's senior executives.

It also claimed that a Cambridge Analytica executive told the undercover reporters, «We're not in the business of fake news, we're not in the business of lying, making stuff up, and we're not in the business of entrapment... There are companies that do this but to me that crosses a line.»

The execs did not meet with the undercover reporters after this session, the company says.

You have the treasurer of the Conservative party, Peter Cruddas, on tape talking to two undercover reporters and making some pretty serious claims about what they can get in return for donations.

The two former ministers» faces were splashed across the front page of the Telegraph, after they were caught on camera speaking to undercover reporters posing as lobbyists.

In order to discover this, you don't need to hire a crack team of undercover reporters, you simply need to spend five minutes scrolling through the register of interests of MPs, publicly available here.

Things only get worse for Allardyce though as undercover reporters also filmed him making comments about the former England coaching staff and players.

During the meeting with undercover reporters posing as businessmen, it is alleged Allardyce said it was «not a problem» to bypass the rules and he knew of agents who were «doing it all the time».

The pair have recent history with Hodgson upset about being referred to as «Woy» during Allardyce's meeting with undercover reporters posing as businessmen which eventually cost the Toffees boss his job as national team manager - but the pair did shake hands in the technical area.

The government has been facing pressure to do more to cut the number of failing care homes after recent scandals found by undercover reporters.

CEO Alexander Nix was suspended within days after he was filmed by undercover reporters from the UK's Channel 4 bragging about ways to win political campaigns, including through blackmail and setting «honey traps».

Cambridge Analytica suspended CEO Alexander Nix in March pending an investigation after Nix boasted of various unsavory services to an undercover reporter for Britain's Channel 4 News.

Meanwhile Nix himself was suspended as CEO by CA last month, following a Channel 4 News investigation broadcast video footage of Nix talking to an undercover reporter and appearing to suggest the firm uses a range of dubious tactics, including front companies and subcontractors to secretly engage in political campaigns.

The Channel 4 News report contained conversations between Cambridge Analytica senior executives and an undercover reporter posing as a Sri Lankan businessman.

While outlining the company's services as a data - driven communications and marketing agency, a senior Cambridge Analytica executive clearly set out the principles which govern its work and said the following to the undercover reporter:

Cambridge's board of directors suspended CEO Alexander Nix pending an investigation after Nix boasted of various unsavory services to an undercover reporter for Britain's Channel 4 News.

The Swede was lured to Dubai by Mazher Mahmood — better known as the «fake sheikh,» an undercover reporter for News of the World — ostensibly to discuss a role as a consultant at a soccer academy.

«Please don't pay too much attention to what I'm saying, because I'm just giving you examples of what can be done, what has been done,» Nix told the undercover reporter.

Despite this clear statement, the undercover reporter later attempted to entrap Cambridge Analytica executives by initiating a conversation about unethical practices.

The Channel 4 News report contained conversations between Cambridge Analytica senior executives and an undercover reporter posing as a Sri Lankan businessman.

Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix told an undercover reporter for Channel 4 News, that the company could offer candidates deals that are «too good to be true,» film the exchange, then post the video online.

While outlining the company's services as a data - driven communications and marketing agency, a senior Cambridge Analytica executive clearly set out the principles which govern its work and said the following to the undercover reporter:

In case you've not yet seen it, the following Sky News report begins with the shocking clips of the secretly - recorded conversation the undercover reporter had with Stephen Byers.

The undercover reporter heard senior Momentum volunteer Sophie Nazemi joking that the group's campaign of exposing Ms Eagle's voting record would be cast as «low - key bullying».

An official from Momentum told an undercover reporter she had indirect contact with an organisation called the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) to «orchestrate» backing for the Labour leader.

The party is also looking to recover from a ministerial resignation - Brooks Newmark had stepped from the cabinet, after a newspaper alleged the Conservative minister for civil society had sent an explicit photograph of himself to an undercover reporter posing as a female party activist.

In 2013, talking to an undercover reporter, Mercer also described a meeting with a young Israeli who said she was a soldier.

Sarah Ferguson claims she was tricked by former News of the World undercover reporter who was jailed last month