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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSuspended Cambridge Analytica CEO reportedly used the N-word in an email to describe potential
Suspended Cambridge Analytica CEO reportedly used the N-word in an email to describe potential clientsAlexandra Ma 23m
Cambridge Analytica's now-suspended CEO reportedly referred to potential clients as "n-----s" in an internal email.
Alexander Nix was suspended from the data analytics company on Tuesday.
CA has come under fire after it was found to have collected and retained 50 million Facebook users' personal data without permission.
Nix also offered to entrap politicians with bribes and sex workers, and bragged about CA's role in Trump's 2016 win.
Alexander Nix, the Cambridge Analytica (CA) chief executive who was suspended on Tuesday night, reportedly used a racial slur against black clients in an internal email.
Nix referred to two potential clients as "n-----s" in an internal email, The Times reported on Wednesday. Neither the identities of the potential clients, nor the subject of the email, were revealed.
CA did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
He and his colleagues were secretly filmed by Britain's Channel 4 News boasting that they had worked in more than 200 elections around the world, including countries like Nigeria, Kenya, the Czech Republic, India, and Argentina.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-alexander-nix-used-n-word-in-emails-about-black-clients-2018-3
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Suspended Cambridge Analytica CEO reportedly used the N-word in an email to describe potential (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Mar 2018
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Stallion
(6,474 posts)1. Who Hasn't Used Those words in Internal Business E-mails?
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)4. Auto-correct error obviously!
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)2. I'm sure he didn't mean it in a racist way.
What's really troubling is that none of the people who received the email seemed to be concerned enough about me it to report him.
Sounds like it was business as usual around there.
Johnny2X2X
(19,038 posts)3. Trump Campaign
CA = Trump Campaign and the American Right.