But christopher wylie, the former ukbased Cambridge Analytica employeeturned whistleblower said that the core of the companys activities was the access facebook provided. So we went from no data to, you know, harvesting all of this this data off of facebook and then combining it with all this you know, the consumer data sets and voter data sets. So, you know, we had sort of a steve bannon and a billionaire breathing down our necks going, wheres the data . Wheres the algorithms . Wheres our information weapons . And thats where kogan came along, alexander kogan, the professor at cambridge. Alexander kogan is the Cambridge University researcher who in 2014 developed an app, a facebook Personality Test called, this is your digital life. 270,000 people voluntarily took the Personality Test. But what no one who took the test knew is that kogans app opened the door to all their personal information and to all of those voluntary facebook responders friends and their friends and so on. Tens of
Tonight which have an exclusive interview. Facebook founder and Ceo Mark Zuckerberg, speaking out for the first time with his company under fire. Suddenly the place where hundreds of millions of people every day share moments of their lives finds itself in a sharing moment, a painful one. The exclusive in a moment. But first cnns drew griffin sets the stage. Reporter the reason facebook is under fire is the ease with which a researcher was able to use facebook to harvest the personal information of tens of millions of americans, then transfer all that personal information to a Data Analytics company that would eventually work for Donald Trumps campaign. That firm, Cambridge Analytica, denies any of its work on the 2016 election used the facebook data to target voters. But christopher wylie, the former ukbased Cambridge Analytica employeeturned whistleblower said that the core of the companys activities was the access facebook provided. So we went from no data to, you know, harvesting a
Consultancy suspends him for boasting about using dirty tricks to swing the election. And boko haram militants free scores of girls kidnapped from their school and duck she nigeria but the extremists warn the girls parents against ever sending their daughters to school again to go back to lagos for the latest. Im sorry so much going to good to have you with us german chancellor Angela Merkel has marked the beginning of her fourth term in office with a wide ranging policy statement the chancellor addressed a number of issues including the emissions scandal surrounding the Automobile Industry and she also spoke about migration and islam in a contradiction of her newly appointed interior minister of course a whole for she insisted that islam had become a part of germany. It is up to no question. That historically our country is christian but i am i am im right this is its also right to say that the four and a half million muslims living in germany mean that their religion islam has not be
Lewandowski in 2015. And 2020 vision. Ivanka trump hits iowa while President Trump rallies a crowd in New Hampshire. We have got to get tough. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im katy tur in new york in for chuck today a chuck todd and this is mtp daily. All of what im about to tell you is happened just in the last 72 hours or so. The president praise theed the firing of Andrew Mccabe after he said he and the special counsel were being unfairly targeted the president targeted him and the special counsel and called mccabe a liar and the Mueller Probe a fraud and after it was indicated he took notes on interactions with President Trump and gave them to mueller, the president claimed he fabricated the memos. They may corroborate james comeys claims of obstruction which is perhaps why the president called james comey a liar. The president called muellers probe a witch hunt, too. While using a hefty bit of disinformation to make his case. He twisted the findings of t
Welker who is holding it down at the white house. In a big week, starting off with a little bit of a bump for the president s pick to be secretary of state, which is the president is clearly focussed on, talking about this morning on twitter. Reporter right. The question is will he get voted out of committee, and if he does, will he become the first nominee in history to get voted out unfavorably . Well have to see if that happens. The white house signaling they do have confidence that he will pass muster through the Committee Vote today. The president tweeting already about this, hallie, writing hard to believe obstructionist made vote against mike pompeo for secretary of state. Dems will not include hundreds of good people including the ambassador to germany. Theyre maxing out the time on approval process for all. Never happened before, need more republicans. Now, a critical senator to watch, senator rand paul, again, the white house signaling that he may be a yes vote. I know youre