The emails, obtained by Business Insider, showed Facebook’s policy manager, Allison Hendrix, asking Cambridge Analytica whether there were any inaccuracies in news stories about the data firm’s use of Facebook as it related to Republican Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign.
The articles were from Fortune, Gizmodo, and Mother Jones. They followed up on reporting from The Guardian, which wrote that Cruz was using a “firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users.”
Source: Emails: Facebook, Cambridge Analytica early response to data scandal – Business Insider