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Cambridge Analytica's board suspends CEO Alexander Nix amid anquiry

Alexandr Kogan, the Cambridge University researcher who developed the app used by Cambridge Analytica to harvest data from millions of Facebook users, claimed today he has been made a scapegoat

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Alexander Nix

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. It broadcast clips on Tuesday that also show Nix saying his data-mining firm played a major role in securing Donald Trump's victory in the elections.

Nix said the firm handled "all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting" and said Cambridge used emails with a "self-destruct timer" to make its role more difficult to trace. "There's no evidence, there's no paper trail, there's nothing," he said. In a statement, Cambridge's board said Nix's