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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Wed Mar 21, 2018, 02:45 PM Mar 2018

Suspended 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 clients
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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 OP
Who Hasn't Used Those words in Internal Business E-mails? Stallion Mar 2018 #1
Auto-correct error obviously! Anon-C Mar 2018 #4
I'm sure he didn't mean it in a racist way. EffieBlack Mar 2018 #2
Trump Campaign Johnny2X2X Mar 2018 #3
 

EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)
2. I'm sure he didn't mean it in a racist way.
Wed Mar 21, 2018, 03:02 PM
Mar 2018

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.


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