Duterte denies Cambridge Analytica hand in campaign

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Friday denied any link to a British political consulting firm currently at the center of a controversy involving the improper sharing of data from millions of Facebook accounts.

Duterte issued the statement after his campaign team was dragged into the controversy involving Cambridge Analytica after they were seen in a May 2015 photograph with Alexander Nix, then board director of Cambridge Analytica parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL).