Alexander Nix said that Cambridge Analytica was being targeted because it helped the Trump campaign

The chief executive of Cambridge Analytica admitted yesterday that he may have to resign and claimed that the company was being targeted because it had helped President Trump to get into the White House.

Speaking after he was filmed by Channel 4 claiming that he has entrapped clients’ opponents using bribery and “beautiful girls”, Alexander Nix said that his future at the British data company was “a decision for the board”. He told The Times: “If that is going to help the company that is the right thing to happen. There are 150 young people whose future is on the line. This is profoundly upsetting.”

He believed that Cambridge Analytica, which was accused by a whistleblower in The Observer of obtaining the Facebook data