The Researcher Who Gave Cambridge Analytica Facebook Data on 50 Million Americans Thought It Was 'Totally Normal'

The Researcher Who Gave Cambridge Analytica Facebook Data on 50 Million Americans Thought It Was 'Totally Normal'

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywxgeg/cambridge-analytica-researcher-interview

From interviewing academics on a daily basis, I can tell you it’s not common for them to be in the middle of a multinational political scandal. So it’s not entirely surprising then that Alex Kogan, a psychology lecturer at Cambridge University who harvested the data that Cambridge Analytica allegedly used to target Facebook users with pro-Trump political ads, said he was “stunned,” to find himself embroiled in this story.

“The events of the past week have been a total shell shock,” Kogan said in an interview with BBC Radio Wednesday morning. “My view is that I’m being, basically, used as a scapegoat by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica when, honestly, we thought we were acting perfectly appropriately.”