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.”