The statement of Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower at the centre of the Facebook data breach scandal, that the Congress was one of Cambridge Analytica’s client would definitely leave the the party red-faced at a time when its president Rahul Gandhi is aiming to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the general elections.
The former Cambridge Analytica employee’s deposition before a British parliamentary committee that is probing fake news that Congress had hired the services of the disgraced firm will hog headlines for quite some time in India with crucial elections to the Karnataka Assembly are round the corner.
“I believe their client was Congress but I know that they have done all kinds of project. I don’t remember a national project but I know regionally. India’s so big that one state can be as big as Britain,” Wylie reportedly told British lawmakers.
This has given ammunition to the BJP which has been targeting the Congress ever since the controversy broke out. Wylie said Cambridge Analytica has offices in India. “I believe I have some documentation on India which I can also provide to the committee if that’s something of interest,” he said.
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