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In Hidden-Camera Exposé, Cambridge Analytica Executives Boast Of Role In Trump Win

Alexander Nix, who was suspended from the firm on Tuesday, is heard saying that he had met Donald Trump "many times" and deployed deceptive tactics to support his election campaign.

Top executives at Cambridge Analytica, the U.K.-based firm embroiled in a controversy over the mining of Facebook user data, have been secretly recorded describing the stealthy methods they used to help get Donald Trump elected.

In the between CEO Alexander Nix and two other executives with an undercover reporter, the company officials also appear to allude to tactics that may violate U.S. campaign finance

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