a british academic who created the app that harvest the data on millions of facebook users says he's being used as a scapegoat by both the social network and the political consultancy behind that data graph facebook says aleksander colgan violated its policies by passing the data to cambridge analytic the u.k. based company is now in hot water after its c.e.o. was filmed by undercover reporters boasting about the dirty tricks he uses to swing election results the center of london hoeing to cambridge analytical. the firm c.e.o. had a reputation for enjoying media attention but in the past few days alexander nick seemed less happy in the media spotlight. on tuesday cambridge analytic has suspended makes following an undercover investigation by british broadcaster channel four he was secretly filmed by a reporter posing as