London — Cambridge Analytica, the UK political consultancy at the centre of Facebook’s election manipulation scandal, ran the campaigns of President Uhuru Kenyatta in the 2013 and 2017 Kenyan elections, according to video secretly recorded and broadcast by Britain’s Channel 4 News on Monday. The company denied all allegations made by Channel 4 News regarding its business practices. The news channel said it mounted a "sting operation" in which it said it had secretly recorded top Cambridge Analytica executives saying they could use bribes, former spies and Ukrainian sex workers to entrap politicians around the world. The New York Times and the British Observer newspaper reported on Saturday that Cambridge Analytica had acquired private data harvested from more than 50-million Facebook users to support Donald Trump’s 2016 US presidential election campaign. Mark Turnbull, an MD for Cambridge Analytica and sister company SCL Elections, told Channel 4’s undercover investigative reporting...
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