was saying that alexander nix or alexander hogan or anybody involved in that knowingly colluded with russia to undermine the american election. there was aying is very significant rift that was created in no time. not only of the existence of this data, but the fact that in telling them the person in charge of the data is actually operating in part of russian. it would make it easy for them to get access to that data. concerning. is that should be looked into. -- my own view is i think alexander would be really stupid. they should have known better. projects in the hope it in various countries on counter russian propaganda. toey also work on the na strack, training center in lafayette. thatnder would have known given how closely we work on the border of russia on projects funded by nato members, in large part for counter propaganda, and the stratcom center. logicallyy would have been unintelligent target for russia. if you are meeting with luke oil, which very openly has a relationship with the fsb, and operates in europe where the fsb can't. you are likely already an intelligence pa

how reliable is the word of alexander nix? that was john sweeney reporting.ander nix, the ceo of cambridge analytica, this afternoon, in an interview arranged to discuss the data breach and before details of the latest channel 4 accusations were aired. i began by asking him whether it was right that dr kogan offerred cambridge analytica access to facebook apps that were given special permission to harvest data. it's certainly right that he gave us access to a dataset. i think that we would disagree with the veracity of the claims concerning how powerful this data was. we ran many models over a period of time, to understand if we could use this data in a meaningful way and ultimately, it proved to be fruitless and so we moved down a different avenue. because he says that the data came notjust from using the apps but from a far wider circle of friends, or their contacts gave you status updates, like some messages. so from touching 200,000 people, you expanded into their entire social networks which scaled you to most of america. look, i think it's important to

it said alexander nix's, is to not represent the values of the firm. he has been suspended.says it is outraged and says it has been deceived by cambridge analytica. the media giant is sending representatives to answer the congress in washington. facebook is an extraordinary company but it is an extraordinary company but it is no longer a company, it is a country. it is a huge. it is breathtakingly powerful. data is the new oil. and facebook‘s behaviour leaves something to be desired. facebook denies it has done anything wrong but there is growing pressure from politicians in the us and the ukfor from politicians in the us and the uk for its boss, mark zuckerberg, to break his silence about how his customers information is dead. i will be talking to the technology correspondent, camped outside facebook hq and he will bring you the latest from there. the fbi now believes that six separate attacks in us state of texas are the work of a serial bomber. in the latest incidents, explosive packages were left at separate fedex offices. police say they have responded to hundreds of ca

meet alexander nix.ss of the data mining company cambridge analytica, which specialises in something called psycho graphics. that is an understanding of your personality because it's personality that drives behaviour and behaviour obviously influences how you vote. but now a committee of mps thinks he may have given parliament false statements about what his company did with millions of facebook profiles. he's been recalled for more questions. the facebook boss mark zuckerberg will also be called. it looks like facebook are trying to avoid difficult questions about this and people will rightly be concerned, are there other data breaches we don't know about, how effective are facebook at stopping people from taking data from their platform and using it in a way that suits them and that facebook can't control? at the heart of this was an app designed here in britain in 2014. it was supposed to tell you a lot more about your own personality. but if you logged in using your facebook profile it allowed the ap

campus the shadowy political consultancy cambridge and i will take us to spins and say you know alexander nix after undercover reporters film how boasting about using dirty tricks and honeytrap it's just swing elections the company stands accused of abusing data gleaned illegally from facebook also coming up tens of thousands of syrians flee eastern as resistance to the government crumbles the u.n. tonight saying it's deeply concerned about the fate of civilians there and elsewhere in the contre. somebody has to be responsible somebody has to be accountable and we in the u.k. think that the. evidence points the evidence or culpability points to the russian state. johnson tells g w news who's behind the board something of a former spy. expels russian diplomats and a sad day for conservationists the world's wound northern white rhino has died in only two females remain the last hope against. species extinction. i'm off it's good to have you with us tonight the data debacle story expanding the political consultant scene for cambridge analytical has suspended its c.e.o. alexander nix after underc

it's important to note, as you say, that alexander nix has now been suspended, because they say thatt representing the company in the way that they wanted that company to be represented. but i think, you know, if we judge him by his own commentary, he is very keen to boast about the role that they played and the kinds of tick taicks they were prepared to employ. one of his colleagues talked to us about putting material out on the internet and kind of pushing it into the bloodstream of the internet, in a way that it was completely untrackable and untraceable. yes, this was in the context of a sales pitch. our undercover operators, journalists went in describing themselves as kind of political consultants working wefor a wealthy sri lankan family, looking for assistance in trying to make sure the right candidates won races in the upcoming sri lankan elections. so it was in that context, but they certainly didn't hold back when it came to describing their own role. >> kylie, at one point, one of the executives talked about how the company's research allowed donald trump to win by a mino

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alexander nix after undercover reporters filmed him boasting about the dirty tricks he could deploy to swing elections revelations came hot on the heels of an exposé by a whistleblower who detailed how the company scraped facebook for users data then turned it against them to influence their voting patterns the center of london home to cambridge analytics. the firm's c.e.o. had a reputation for enjoying media attention but in the past few days alexander nick seemed less happy in the media spotlight. on tuesday can reach analytical suspended next following an undercover investigation by british broadcaster channel four he was secretly filmed by reported posing as a client seeking to get candidates elected alexander nix outlines and dirty tricks to help things such as blackmail. the effect to be just to. speak to the. true picture. or entrapping politicians by filming them in compromising situations that. shortly before being suspended next told b.b.c. he was exaggerating the company's work. we. undertook this meeting and spoke with a certain amount of hyperbole about some of the things

meet alexander nix. data mining company cambridge analytica, which specialises in something called psychographics. that is an understanding of your personality because it's personality that drives behaviour and behaviour obviously influences how you vote. but now a committee of mps thinks he may have given parliament false statements about what his company did with millions of facebook profiles. he's been recalled for more questions. the facebook boss mark zuckerberg will also be called. it looks like facebook were trying to avoid difficult questions about this and people will rightly be concerned, are there other data breaches we don't know about, how effective are facebook at stopping people taking data from their platform and using it in a way that suits them and that facebook can't control? at the heart of this was an app designed here in britain in 2014. it was supposed to tell you a lot more about your own personality. but if you logged in using your facebook profile it allowed the app and its owne

i've got a statement from alexander nix here. he says that in the meeting, he regretted that he had behaved in the way that he had, and that he was simply following the line in going along with a series of ludicrous, hypothetical scenarios in order not to embarrass the clients. >> so cambridge analytica is paid i think, if i'm not mistaken, $15 million from the trump campaign. they provide a kind of data engine for a lot of what the campaign is doing on facebook. at the same time your investigation just came out. knits the wake of the news about the essentially purloined data of 50 million users here in the u.s., and also users i believe in the uk. and they are now facing really serious possible consequences in the uk over that. is that right? >> that's right. there is a horde of investigators making their way to the offices of cambridge analytica. it's been an amazing scene tonight i'm told because facebook apparently sent in a forensic data team to look what was being stored, what was being held at cambridge analytica offices,

it is not alexander nix in particular. there was one time we had to go and we were running late once because he had to pick up a 200,000 pounds chandelier. these are people who do not need to make a lot of money but the thing that i learned is that, for certain wealthy people, they need something to keep them occupied, they need a project and going into the developing world and sort of running a country is something that appeals to them. >> last question. christopher wylie: i did not mean that in a flippant way. >> scl canada, what is the christopher wylie: very shortly after i became research rector -- director at scl and i was given the directive or mandate to expand the company's software capacity and technological infrastructure. we need people to do that. i reached out to people who had worked on previous projects that i respected. in the first email i sent, which i have passed on to the committee along with several folders of documents -- the first email where i tell jeff that i have become instructor -- director and

so when alexander nix says in the statement we just received they realized immediately something was for seven weeks after that they were still trying to get the business. that's interesting. >> yes, it is. >> and it was these previous meetings, i understand, were fairly innocuous. three meetings that were sort of ordinary and it was this fourth one where this claim and these offers came out. his claim is that they were just discussing hypotheticals. these are the types of things that occasionally happen in this business. did it read like that to you? >> i think the interesting thing is even before that meeting, there were other moments where mike turnbull, the managing director of the company rejected the idea that they would engage in any kind of dirty tricks. however, the mood did seem to change when alexander nix joined that conversation and he directly contradicted things that mark turns there bull said before. so there are inconsistencies. but when we say the earlier meetings were innocuous, we still learn a lot about the approach of cambridge analytica and the way they like to

secret filming by channel 4 news shows cambridge analytica's boss, alexander nix, boasting about the ictory. the company has denied the facebook information was used for this purpose. it said mr nix's comments do to not represent the values of the firm. he has been suspended. the cambridge academic who created the data that was harberton —— harvested and has been banned from facebook says that he has been banned. i have been used as a scapegoat by analytica. we thought we we re scapegoat by analytica. we thought we were acting appropriately, and did not do anything wrong. facebook says it did break rules by donating dated to third parties and says it has been deceived by cambridge analytica. there is growing pressure from politicians. thank you becoming on breakfast. how is this gone down in america? the question everybody has asking. we are today six of this crisis. it certainly is a crisis. we aat here even a peep from the founder of facebook. they have had a meeting. that wasn't shared by mark zuckerberg what is happening here, it seems to me, is that blame is being passed from par

the london based company cambridge analytica has suspended its chief executive alexander nix as the rowver use of facebook data deepens. it follows allegations from a whistleblower that information about 50 million facebook subscriberrs has been harvested from the site and used by cambridge analytica for political purposes. facebook‘s boss, mark zuckerberg, has been ordered to appear before mps to answer allegations. our business editor simonjack reports. in the information age, personal data is the new currency and we spend it liberally on social media platforms; how old we are, whether we're in a relationship, what are our political leanings, this could be gathered and used. cambridge analytica is a company which does exactly that, and it's at the centre of a storm that has rocked some of the biggest companies in the world. it started with an app designed by a british academic, which invited facebook users to do a personality test. 270,000 people downloaded it. it collected personal information on them, theirfriends, their friends‘ friends and so on, until it had info on 50 million fa

cambridge analytica announced it is suspending ceo alexander nix immediately and they are , launchingndependent investigation into the company's actions. nix was caught on tape talking about the dealing with the trump campaign in a investigation. he is discussing the use of a self-destructing email server to communicate with clients in order to eliminate evidence of their contact. [indiscernible] caroline: in a statement the company said in the view of the board, mr. nix's comments secretly recorded by channel four do not represent the values or operations of the firm and his suspension reflects the seriousness with which we view this violation. dr. alexander taylor will serve as ceo while an independent investigation is launched to view those comments and allegations. for more let's get to sarah frier in san francisco. you have been all across this fallout. it is fascinating that the ceo of cambridge analytica, nix, now suspended, was bragging about the power that cambridge analytica had particularly with the 2016 presidential campaign, saying they did all the research, had all the d

alexander nix outlined some dirty tricks to help, things such as blackmail. rter: all entrapping politicians by filming them in compromising situations. reporter: shortly before being suspended, nix told bbc he was exaggerating the company's work. >> we maybe undertook this meeting and spoke with a certain amount of hyperbole about some of the things that we do. reporter: but these latest accusations are not the only problems dogging cambridge and a lack of -- cambridge analytica. vic beasley brand how they helped get u.s. president donald trump elected. now the uk's data protection agency has served a warrant to serve -- search cambridge analytica's company headquarters. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics. he said people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stored private data about the user interface with friends. >> i only need to engage 50,000, 100,000 people to get a really big data amount quickly and it skillfully quickly. we got upwards of 50 million plus facebook records in the span of a couple

but luckily, alexander nix disagrees. >> equally effective can be just to go and speak to the incumbentsnd to offer them a deal that's too good to be true and make sure that's video recorded. these sorts of tactics are very effective, instantly having video evidence of corruption putting it on the internet. >> stephen: smile alexander nix, you're on candid corruption! ( applause ) you know what? i tell ya, i bet this is something you didn't even know you feared until you saw it. we've got a great show for you tonight. ( cheers and applause ) drew barrymore is here, but when we return, i'll be right here with more monologue. stick around! mercedes-benz glc... ...with its high-tech cameras and radar... ...contemporary cockpit... ...three hundred and sixty degree network of driver-assist technologies... ...and sporty performance... ...what's most impressive about the glc? all depends on your point of view. lease the glc300 for just $449 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. poallergies?reather. stuffy nose? can't sleep? take that. a breathe right na

. >> meanwhile, cambridgea analyt suspending alexander nix with immediate effect pending a full independent investigation saying his comments recorded by channel 4 in which he describesne shady bu practices do not represent the values or operations of the firm. for "nightly business report" i'm julia boor citizen in los angeles. >>> it wn't just faceboo that felt the heat. other social media stocks like twitter, snap chat and the etcial media also fell. when an entire sector is under pressure especially one that played a roll in the market's run up, investors take immediate notice. bob pisani is at the stock exchange for us tonight. >> reporter: first, was the big market leader last year and into 2018. it was partly because social media stocksere big marke movers. not just facebook, but snap and pandora, twitter, groupon, other social media stocks attracted al lot of new mont year. the social media etf was up over 50% in 2017 and attracted a lot of new mone but now social media in general is under attack and it's not cheer if there will be any market leader. there is a big problem with that

we have testimony from alexander nix before our committee, but at the republican insistence, and evenhough he was frequently in the united states, they wouldn't allow for in-person testimony. they did it by videoconference. that was wholly inadequate. even then it appears that alex nix's testimony may have been untrue vis-a-vie the facebook data. we need to find out. it's certainly inconsistent with what we're seeing from this whistleblower. >> i want to know whether what you think facebook has said in regard to all of this is a helpful matter or shoots themselves in the foot. let me quote facebook's statement. the claim that this is a data breach is false. people knowingly provided their information. no systems were infiltrated, no passwords or sensitive pieces of information were stolen or hacked. how doeshat sit with you? >> i don't know whether it's better or worse that the private data of 50 million americans may have been inappropriately used and that wasn't a breach. that may be a worse problem. but cambridge analytica had facebook people embedded within its operation. did thes

here you hear from alexander nix five minutes and it was done. now cambridge analytica said it is committed to helping the house intelligence committee with their investigation. and it says that they are not under investigation and there is no allegation of wrongdoing on the part of cambridge analytica. >> wow. well guess what, this story is not going anywhere. it is only getting bigger. the question is, what is alexander nix -- who knows an awful lot -- going to do next. anna schechter and jesse hempell. the new piece is outstanding from jesse. up next, the cruise authorities piece together to track down the austin, texas, bombing suspect. and apprehend him. talk about extraordinary work by our police and fbi and atf officials. it is amazing. just before the man detonated a bomb inside of his own car killing himself, they did stunning work. we'll go live to texas right after the break. dear foremothers, your society was led by a woman, who governed thousands... commanded armies... yielded to no one. when i found you in my dna, i learned where my

the man speaking there is chief executive of cambridge analytica, alexander nix, he's since been suspendede company. and a little earlier facebook has also released a statement. it said its chief executive mark zuckerberg and chief operating officer, sheryl sandberg, and their teams are working around the clock to get all the facts and take the appropriate action moving forward because they understand the seriousness of this issue. the entire company is outraged we were deceived. we are committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people's information and will take whatever steps are required to see that this happens." the fallout of this story is being felt far and wide, in a moment we'll hear from jon sopel in washington, the number of issues that had many. lots of valley has been wiped off the value. a senior executive who said he is eventually going to leave the company a few months from now on there is a mood are feeling real aims. it's got to be said that facebook‘s response to the issue has made things worse, not better. you mentioned that statement with senior executiv

katty: at one point in the latest report from channel 4on newsof the members -- i think it was alexander nix-- said "we went to speak toon members ofess, but you know what, they did not know what questions to ask us, they were ignorant, they did not understand the technology." is that a fair represen of why it has taken lawmakers not ju on this side of the atlantic, but the u.k. as well, so long address this issue? rep. castro: i think part of the challenge we have had with some witnesses is that they have not been honest and not been candid and they have played hide the i would put alexander nix in that category, and the problemha been that when we have asked questions, the majority on the committee, controlled by republicans, have been on -- unwilling to issue any kindof ubpoenas for phone records or computer records or travels reco verify what is being told to us or to contradict anything that has been told to us. katty: congressman, when i watch seese two reports, i came away -- it sounds grand- with the impressiothat western democracy has fundamentally changed, the way votes are cast, t

the man speaking there is chief executive of cambridge analytica, alexander nix, he's since been suspendedthe company. and a little earlier facebook has also released a statement. it said its chief executive mark zuckerberg and chief operating officer, sheryl sandberg, and their teams are working around the clock to get all the facts and take the appropriate action moving forward... the fallout of this story is being felt far and wide, in a moment we'll hear from jon sopel in washington, from amol rajan in san francisco, but first to simon jack who's been to the headquarters of cambridge analytica in london. rather modest offices, have become an unlikely idea storm. drawn in politicians on both sides of the atlantic. when this story first broke, cambridge analytica said they had done nothing wrong. the executives were talking in hypotheticals. they have since changed their tunes and saying the comments of the boss, who you sort in that footage, did not represent the values of the firm and he was suspended pending the investigation. damian collins, the head of the committee of media and spo

meet alexander nix.lytica, which specialises in something called psycho graphics. that is an understanding of your personality because it's personality that drives behaviour and behaviour obviously influences how you vote. but now a committee of mps thinks he may have given parliament false statements about what his company did with millions of facebook profiles. he's been recalled for more questions. the facebook boss mark zuckerberg will also be called. it looks like facebook were trying to avoid difficult questions about this and people will rightly be concerned, are there other data breaches we don't know about, how effective are facebook at stopping people from taking data from their platform and using it in a way that suits them and that facebook can't control? at the heart of this was an app designed here in britain in 2014. it was supposed to tell you a lot more about your own personality. but if you logged in .. allowed the app and its users access to some very personal and we're going to make c

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alexander nix pays the price for his part in the facebook data abuse scandal because something see firm suspends it for boasting about using dirty tricks to swing elections. where iraq thanks for your company everyone well we started with a surprising turn of events in nigeria boko haram militants have freed more than one hundred schoolgirls abducted from a boarding school in northeastern nigeria a month ago while at this exclusive video that you see here attained by. d.w. news from our partner station channels television shows some of the freed girls shortly after their release boko haram warn parents not to send the girls back to school and the nigerian government said it did not pay ransom for the girls released and that more girls are expected to be released in the days ahead. oh understandably a very emotional homecoming you have used correspondent in nigeria increase joins me now from lagos he's been on this story since it broke and i can't i really can't even imagine the sense of relief that the girl's parents must be feeling right now but also a lot of anxiety. absolutely i mean

i would put alexander nix in that category. when we have asked questions, the majority of the committee, which is controlled by republicans, have been unwilling to issue subpoenas for phone records, travel records, to verify what has been told to us or to contradict anything that has been told us. when i watch these two reports, i caned came away, and it sounds grandiose, that western democracy has fundamentally changed. the way votes are cast, the way elections are won lost has changed fundamentally, in a way that is worrying and degrades the concept of one person, one vote. is that too extreme, or is that the direction we are heading?” is that too extreme, or is that the direction we are heading? i think the big concern many of us had was that for bad actors, whether it's russian operatives who plays facebook adverts, fake facebook adverts, or cambridge analytica, social media has become a perfect platform for their propaganda. and we are in a full social media age now where people get more of their information from the socia

alexander nix have you met mr that isn't. the date of the victims of what is. just a facebook spokesperson says the company remains committed to protecting the privacy office users there's a surance is not enough for us lawmakers though all for those who are once the facebook faithful trending on social media is a hash tag delete facebook and the chilly prospect facing the company is that its own client base may freeze it out mike hanna al-jazeera washington. in the u.k. opposition parties said they were concerned cambridge had struck deals with the ruling conservative party and even barbara has more from outside the company's headquarters in london. well here in london we've heard precious little from cambridge analytical since tuesday when they said they were suspending chief executive alexander nix following the airing on britain's channel four news of undercover filming of nixon colleagues claiming that they'd influence elections in various countries well on wednesday there were accusations in parliament by opposition parties. that term senior figures in ca

british tv overnight, an expose that was done where alexander nix seen on tv offering women showing up paymention of some kind. do you have any concerns about that? >> of course i have concerns. basically the 50 million profiles that were given to them are highly valuable. i think any company would want to get those, or if a political candidate were to purchase a profile, they would have had to spend a lot more money than it appears the trump campaign did. that's one issue. the second issue is what they're doing with people's information. they're talking about sending ukrainian women over to people's houses. i mean this is bad stuff. we want to hear exactly what happened. to me that is a separate hearing from what we want to see from the broad hearing on social media. this is a separate hearing where we want to hearing from professor kogan and alexander nix and what happened with the trump campaign. >> senator kennedy, you were nodding up and down. do you think you should have a separate hearing? >> sure. it is creepy. it's not the only instance. politicians have been mining data on fa

this follows a third day of reporting from britain's channel four including tape where alexander nix explains what his company's role was in getting donald trump elected. >> have you met mr. trump? >> many times. >> you have? >> all the data, all the analytics, all the digital campaign, television campaign and form a strategy. >> all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy. we did it basically. that ceo of trump's campaign data firm is out of that company as of tonight. british investigators are seeking search warrants. here in the united states the federal trade commission announced an investigation into facebook because of its dealings with this company and in the context of the on going special counsel's investigation by robert mueller and his team of prosecutors, questions are now being raised about several aspects of this firm and its work for the trump campaign. including this new revelation from a whistle blower from the former research director that says t

this is that company's boss alexander nix boasting two undercover reporters that they use that data tos during the us elections that got donald trump into the white house. a claim that facebook strongly denies. the app was created by cambridge university academic who designed it for research, not election rigging. my view is that i am being used as a scapegoat by both facebook and cambridge analytica. we thought we we re cambridge analytica. we thought we were acting perfectly appropriately and doing something that was perfectly normal. facebook says it's been outrage about how it's been deceived but cambridge analytica says it's done nothing wrong, it has suspended its ceo alexander nix and said it has appointed a senior lawyer to carry out an investigation. analysts say online political campaigning is here to stay. every uk party is campaigning online, buying adverts, profiling the voters they want to reach. they are spending the money they need to reach them. the nice thing for them, of these kind of advertising tools, is that they can go back to people again and again with the same

they believe alexander nix has fresh questions to answer about the way his company used the personall also be asked to appear. both deny any wrong doing. will also be asked to appear. here‘s our business correspondent joe lynam. the correspondentjoe lynam. idea that all women sho receive the idea that all women should receive the same message... meet alexander nix, he is the eton educated boss of the data mining company cambridge analytica, which specialises in something called psycho graphics. that is an understanding of your personality, because it‘s personality that drives behaviour and behaviour that obviously influences how you vote. but now a committee of mps thinks he might have given parliament false state m e nts might have given parliament false statements about what his company did with millions of facebook profiles. he has been recalled for more questions. the facebook boss mark zuckerberg will also be called. it looks like facebook were trying to avoid difficult questions about this and people will rightly be concerned, are there other data breaches we don‘t know about?

alexander nix appears to promote bribes and blackmail in an undercover video in which he thinks he's speaking to a s sri lankan client. another cambridge analytica executive named mark turnbull spells out a strt gee for the trump campaign that sounds strikingly similar to the russian disinformation effort. >> you just put disinformation onto the flood stream on the internet and watch it go. give it a little push now and again over time to watch it take shape. and so this stuff infiltrates the online community and expands. but with no branding so it's unattributable, untrackable. >> kiley morse for channel 4 news which conducted that undercover investigation of cambridge analytica. let's start with that. essentially we can do a no fingerprints information campaign on social media. is it credible? is that the kind of thing that they did actually do? >> well, yes, i think there is evidence that they were able to use proxies. indeed they were quite detailed in some of their evidence to us or some of their comments to us about that, about how you can go in and use a charity, for example,

secret filming by channel 4 news shows cambridge analytica's boss, alexander nix, boasting about the p's victory. the company has denied the facebook information was used for this purpose. it said mr nix's comments do to not represent the values of the firm. he has been suspended. the cambridge academic who created the app from which the data was harvested, has been banned from facebook but says the only thing he did wrong was not to ask enough questions. my view is that i have been used as a scapegoat by facebook and cambridge analytica. we thought we were acting perfectly appropriately, we thought we were doing something really normal. facebook says it did break rules by donating data to third parties and says it has been deceived by cambridge analytica. facebook denies it has done anything wrong but there is growing pressure from politicians in the us and the ukfor from politicians in the us and the uk for its boss, mark zuckerberg, to break his silence about how his customers' information is protected. the royal air force has confirmed that a member of its red arrows aerobatic tea

the firm's chief executive alexander nix has been called back before a committee in the uk, facebookstify. both companies have denied wrongdoing. as protectionism rears its head in america many trade partners have been racing a trade war, india said it will engage in washington over recent decisions related to it exports in this week it plays host to several members of the world trade organization. a business reporterjoins us. how influential is india do you think in terms of free trade in the global landscape? india is important as we rise, if you look at the last few yea rs, rise, if you look at the last few years, looking at some of the meetings taking place at the wto including discussions of controversial issues like food stockpiling and providing subsidies for illegalfishing, india has been an important voice along with china so with that in mind this meeting is important, it is the first meeting after the 11th ministerial meeting that took place in argentina in december which failed to reach any sort of consensus on critical issues. 6iven sort of consensus on critical issues.

political consultancy cambridge analytical has suspended its chief executive alexander nix after undercover reporters filmed him boasting about dirty tricks in election campaigns the revelations come after an exposé that detailed the company's mining and facebook data. the un has said it is.

so what you're about to see that man, alexander nix, bragging to a reporter posing as a prospective clienthe company's role in the trump campaign. nix doesn't know he's being recorded. >> here's the response now from cambridge analytica. cambridge analytica, they right, has never claimed it won the election for president trump. this is patently absurd. we are proud of the work we did on that campaign and have spoken in many public forums about what we consider to be our contribution to the campaign. phillip bump is with us again. phillip, just your reaction to that. more information and more damaging details about this relationship between this firm and the president's campaign. >> yeah, i think as of the new channel 4 report, the most damaging part of that is actually not cambridge analytica's relationship to the trump campaign, but rather, cambridge analytica's apparent relationship to outside groups. now, federal law mandates that if you're working with a campaign, you can't also work with outside groups that are advocating for that candidate's election or his opponent's defeat. there a

i would put alexander nix in that category and the problem has been that when we have asked questionsch is controlled by republicans, have been unwilling to issue any kind of subpoena or phone records or computer records or travel records to verify what has been told to us or to contradict anything that has been told to us. when i watch these two reports, i came away, and it sounds kind of grandiose, with the impression that western democracy has fundamentally changed. the way votes are cast, the way elections are won or lost has changed significantly. in a way that is worrying. that kind of degrades the concept of one person, one vote. is that too extreme, or is that the direction we're heading in? i think the big concern that many of us have is that for bad actors, whether it is a russian operative placing facebook ads, fake facebook ads, or cambridge analytica, social media has become the perfect platform for their propaganda. and social, we are in a full social media age now. where people get more of their information from the social media companies than from the traditional sourc

standing on you oxford street there was a large press scrum there last night but not much to be seen alexander nix the then demoted c.e.o. sort of entering the building and then sort of disappearing into thin air so he is gone but the problem grows by the hour scenes from the british side because they can't get the information the information commissioner simply doesn't have enough powers that's what everybody here is says because now cambridge analytic a has had days of warning they could have wiped any server they ever used instead it cleaned up all their left ops and xander nix the c.e.o. he used to have those in those talks with channel four that they had a self destroying e-mail system so it may even be hard to sort of find the evidence for the things that have gone on there but barbara's taken media reports investigations by channel four there to push the topic back onto the public agenda british authorities are supposed to be monitoring internet privacy why didn't they come up on those earlier. it seems quite incredible and there's no real explanation for it because the information commissi

yesterday cambridge analytica announced its chief executive, alexander nix, had been suspended pendingdemic who created an app which gathered data from millions of facebook users says he has been made a ‘scapegoat‘. dr aleksandr kogan said he had no idea the work he did for cambridge analytica would be used for donald trump‘s election campaign. facebook says dr kogan violated the site‘s policies. 0ur correspondent ben ando reports. worldwide it has more than 2 billion users. if you are on facebook and you probably are, it has information about how old you are, who you are related to and how you might vote. if you were one of 270,000 people who took part in a personality test, that app collected data notjust for you, but for your friends, their friends, up to 50 million people for a company called cambridge analytica. have you met mr trump? many times. this is that company‘s boss alexander nix boasting to undercover reporters that they used that data to send millions of targeted messages during the us elections that got donald trump into the white house. a claim that facebook strongly d

that firm's chief executive, alexander nix, was suspended earlier this evening.ur business editor simonjack reports. in the information age, personal data is the new currency and we spend it liberally on social media platforms. how old we are, whether we are in a relationship, what are our political leanings, this can all be gathered and used. cambridge analytica is a company which does exactly that and it is at the centre of a political storm that has rocked one of the biggest companies in the world. it started with an app designed by a british academic that invited facebook users to do a personality test. 270,000 people downloaded the app, it collected personal information on them, theirfriends, theirfriends‘ friends and so on until it had information on 50 million facebook users. that data was passed to cambridge analytica, who allegedly used it to influence the presidential election in the us, using highly targeted messages, a charge denied by the company. the uk's data watchdog said she had concerns about the company for some time. these allegations are very

four he was secretly filmed by repulsion posing as a client seeking to get candidates elected alexander nix outlines and data tricks to help things such as blackmail. be effective and be just to get the. speech to be of interest. that it. is to get to the truth of the fiction that it's the video footage there or entrapping politicians by filming them in compromising situations that get through to the candidates that. we have seen this year with. shortly before being suspended next told b.b.c. he was exaggerating the company's. but these latest accusations on the only problems dogging can be channelised the company had previously bragged how to use facebook profiles to help get u.s. president donald trump elected now the u.k.'s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends