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- Academic Aleksandr Kogan helped Cambridge Analytica harvest Facebook data — but complained that he’s been made a “scapegoat.”
- Kogan told the BBC that he was assured that what he was doing was legal.
- He also said that Cambridge Analytica exaggerated how accurate the harvested Facebook data was.
LONDON (Reuters) – A Cambridge University academic who harvested data on millions of Facebook users said he has been made a scapegoat by the social network and a UK-based political consultancy that is accused of trying to sway public opinion for Donald Trump.
Facebook has been rocked this week by a whistleblower who said that Cambridge Analytica, a UK-based political firm hired by Trump for the 2016 campaign, had improperly accessed information on 50 million Facebook users.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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