The British consulting firm at the center of a data mining scandal linked to the 2016 United States presidential race harvested information of about 1.2 million Facebook users in the Philippines, purportedly to help elect Mr Rodrigo Duterte to the presidency, according to media reports. Jose Gabriel ‘Pompee’ La Viña, who appears in a photo with Cambridge Analytica’s Alexander Nix, says he never worked with the parent company but took some lessons from the talk of Nix himself when he visited Manila in 2015. Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer said that about 1,175,870 Filipino users may have had their Facebook information improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.