was legal and that he had no idea that information would be used to help donald trump s 2016 campaign. investors are suing facebook in the wake of the scandal, sending the company s stock plunging almost $50 billion this week alone. let s bring in cnn sarah murray. how important was this data? the firm, cambridge analytica, to the trump campaign? conflicting accounts to this. we ve obviously seen all of these undercover videos where you see the cambridge ceo, alexander nicks taking credit for that from channel 4 in the uk. saying we never bought a notion into this psychographic method. instead we would use them for polling, to create models to help us decide where to send president trump for rallies. these were not the key data players in our campaign. that was the republican national committee. facebook is facing a lot of questions on how they protect users privacy. what are they saying about that?
detailing services that he said cambridge analytica can offer to help you, something involving ukrainian girls being sent to your home. at the heart of the reporting is the result they built the operation on facebook data that took from 50 million unsuspecting americans. well today, alexander nix got suspended from his own companyfecompan company fect effective immediately. the senate intelligence committee investigating russia s attack on the election took a piece of their investigation off the stove today calling it basically cooked. senate intel put out their list today of security recommendations for how america should sure up our elections against another attack that is surely comcoming.
credit for. when you think about the fact that donald trump lost the popular vote by all 3 million votes and within ton the electv you move more people out in those swing states on election day, that s how he won the election. have you met mr. trump? many times. you have? all the data, all the analytics, we want all the digital campaign, television campaign and our data will form the strategy. all the vergresearch, all th targeting, all the digital campaign, all the television campaign and we provided the data for all of it. more undercover video into cambridge analytica. alexander nix follows the footage they put out yesterday
christopher wiley is saying is in 2014 and 2015 they met with executives from lukoil specifically to give them detailed briefings on how data was used to target american voters. quote, christopher wiley who helped develop the company s voter profiling technology said lukoil showed interest how they used data. i remember being super confused. i kept asking alexander nicks what do they want? we re sending them stuff about political targeting. they come and ask more about political targeting. as to the way cambridge got access to the 50 million facebook users which is what this whistle blower says the operation was based on.
experts suggest that is evidence that it is not a complete data set. they would need perhaps my personality data. so do you believe they have that information? i do believe it. because the ceo, alexander nicks, drbragged he has 4,000 t 5,000 data sets on every american. i have a dozen. facebook said for its part, and i m reading here, look, this is the back of the data breach is false, they said. access was gained from users who can chose to sign up to use an app. everyone gave their consent. our hands are clean. it s a real breach of confidence. it s a breach of trust. facebook s business model is to protect our privacy in order to use it to sell is us things through advertising. and if they don t adhere to the trust between us, then their