There’s a whole lotta weird stuff going on with Cambridge Analytica and Facebook and Sri Lanka and honeypotting politicians.
Now their CEO has been suspended:
The board of data mining firm Cambridge Analytica said today it had suspended its CEO, Alexander Nix, following accusations the firm misused information from up to 50 million Facebook accounts.
The board said that secretly recorded comments Nix had made in a report by the U.K.’s Channel 4 “and other allegations do not represent the values or operations of the firm and his suspension reflects the seriousness with which we view this violation.”
The suspension was effective immediately and was “pending a full, independent investigation,” the board said.
The board asked Alexander Tayler to serve as the firm’s acting chief executive while the investigation was launched.
We posted the entire expose here – it’s really worth watching.
And to top it all off, there’s a whistleblower who used to work at Cambridge and is speaking out against the tactics they used: