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| Aleksandr Kogan speaks to government committee on Cambridge Analytica scandal (WATCH LIVE) | Aleksandr Kogan speaks to government committee on Cambridge Analytica scandal (WATCH LIVE) |
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| Cambridge researcher Aleksandr Kogan, the creator of the app that harvested data from the accounts of millions of Facebook users for Cambridge Analytica, is giving evidence to the Commons culture committee investigating fake news. | |
| Evidence given by Kogan was set to follow a second round of testimony from the now-suspended bigwig of the notorious data-mining firm, Alexander Nix. Instead, Nix ducked the UK government’s inquiry last week by using the criminal investigation he is now under as a shield to excuse him from attending the grilling by UK MPs. | |
| Nix’s lawyers have told the fake-news inquiry that he will not – and cannot – “give evidence [on April 18] as a consequence of him having been served with an information notice and being the subject of a criminal investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office,” fake-news committee chair Damian Collins said. | |
| The inquiry is now considering issuing Nix with a summons. | |
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