The Mercers agreed to fund a new venture, Cambridge Analytica, with Nix as CEO and total freedom for Wylie to develop his ideas. For Wylie, Cambridge Analytica was apparently an intellectual ...

Cambridge Analytica bosses were secretly filmed claiming they helped win Donald Trump win the US election in 2016. CEO Alexander Nix and colleagues detailed the level of the work they undertook ...

What the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal lacks in relevance it sure makes up for in melodramatic rhetoric. Take Bloomberg, for instance, which reported, “The revelations of the apparent ...

A hedge-fund manager, Robert Mercer retains a significant ownership stake in the firm. Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix appeared to be caught on camera offering bribes to public officials and has ...

Beyond the improper use of data, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix was caught suggesting that the company employed 'honeypots', women who would seduce politicians to glean information or ...

An excerpt from a book by the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower reveals what the firm did that swayed the 2016 elections. Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, is known for ...

Cambridge Analytica was launched in 2013 by the wealthy ... or the government learns about improper access to its data. Naomi Nix contributed to this report.

Cadwalladr's reporting blew the lid off the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed that Facebook had made data on tens of millions of Americans accessible to the political consulting firm.

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