Here’s what you need to know about how a political data firm tied to President Trump’s campaign gained access to private information on 50 million Facebook users nyti.ms/2FLEBIG
The New York Times and The Observer of London reported how Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm closely tied to the Trump campaign, exploited data from 50 million Facebook users nyti.ms/2u3oXTy
Christopher Wylie, who oversaw Cambridge’s data collection until 2014, said of his former company, “For them, this is a war, and it’s all fair” nyti.ms/2u3oXTy
Facebook is defending its protection of user information after Cambridge Analytica harvested private information from more than 50 million profiles. But lawmakers in the U.S. and Britain are calling for greater scrutiny. nyti.ms/2GanHD7
Alexander Nix, a director of SCL Group, a British political and defense contractor, and chief executive of its American offshoot, Cambridge Analytica, told the British Parliament that his company had no connections to Russia nyti.ms/2ptrhhg
However, the firm’s employees, who often overlap, had contact in 2014 and 2015 with executives from Lukoil, the Russian oil giant. Lukoil was interested in how data was used to target American voters. nyti.ms/2ptrhhg 
“Send some girls around to the candidate’s house”: As part of a monthslong investigation into Cambridge Analytica, a reporter from Channel 4 News in Britain secretly filmed Alexander Nix, the data firm’s chief, as he offered to entrap politicians nyti.ms/2pqOL6z
