https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/24/pr_crisis_facebook_cannot_admit_truth_says_kogan/

The egghead behind the mass slurp of Facebook users’ information has said the social network is in “PR crisis mode” – as Cambridge Analytica enacted a crisis management of its own.

During a British Parliament hearing on Tuesday, Aleksandr Kogan was grilled on his work with Facebook user data - which began as a research project in collaboration with Zuck & Co, and resulted in him developing the app at the heart of the latest scandal.