Ex-Cambridge Analytica Employee To Cooperate With DOJ Probe

Canadian data analytics expert and whistle-blower, Christopher Wylie poses for photographs outside a press conference in London on March 26, 2018. Instantly recognisable with his pink hair and nose ring, Christoph... Canadian data analytics expert and whistle-blower, Christopher Wylie poses for photographs outside a press conference in London on March 26, 2018. Instantly recognisable with his pink hair and nose ring, Christopher Wylie claims to have helped create data analysis company Cambridge Analytica before turning whistleblower and becoming "the face" of the crisis engulfing Facebook. / AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The computer expert who alleges a trove of Facebook data was improperly used to help President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election says he will cooperate with a Justice Department investigation.

Christopher Wylie is a whistleblower and former employee of the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, which has come under criticism over reports that it swiped the data of about 50 million Facebook users to sway elections.

Wylie tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he plans to meet with “law enforcement and the Department of Justice.” Special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department to run the election probe and has been scrutinizing connections between Cambridge Analytica and Trump’s Republican campaign.

Democrats on a House Intelligence Panel have previously said they would interview Wylie.

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