AggregateIQ senior executive Jeff Silvester denies the Victoria-based company lied to a committee probing Facebook data scandal. Photo courtesy CBC.
One of the leaders of a Victoria-based technology firm says the company did not lie to MPs investigating its role in the outcome of the 2016 Brexit referendum.
AggregateIQ (AIQ) senior executive Jeff Silvester is denying allegations the company misled a probe looking into Canadian connections to the Facebook data controversy.
Silvester says AIQ did nothing illegal when helping groups campaigning for the U.K. to leave the European Union, and says the company has been fully transparent with the Commons ethics and privacy committee.
Victoria-raised Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower of the Cambridge Analytica (CA) Facebook data harvesting scandal, has accused AIQ of lying to MPs, saying it was involved in illegal activity.
A security researcher also accused AIQ of misleading the committee that is probing the international scandal.
In March, AIQ denied allegations it played a role in the U.K.’s official “Vote Leave” campaign in 2016 and that it has undisclosed links with CA.
Silvester, who was testifying alone in Ottawa during a three-hour hearing, called Wylies’ accusations of illegal activity astonishing.
AIQ CEO Zack Massingham was scheduled to testify but did not appear because of unspecified health reasons.
Committee members are considering to hold Massingham in contempt of Parliament.
With files from the Canadian Press.
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