Danny Hakim

Alexander Nix is a director of SCL Group, a British political and defense contractor, and chief executive of its American offshoot, Cambridge Analytica, which advised the Trump campaign. The firms’ employees, who often overlap, had contact in 2014 and 2015 with executives from Lukoil, the Russian oil giant.  Lukoil was interested in how data was used to target American voters, according to two former company insiders who said there were at least three meetings with Lukoil executives in London and Turkey.

Britain postponed on its regulatory review of 21st Century Fox’s proposal to take full control of the British satellite television giant Sky until after the country’s general election in June. The delay comes amid calls for British regulators to consider Fox’s handling of sexual harassment cases in the United States, which recently led the company to dismiss Bill O’Reilly, its highest-profile news anchor.

The regulator, the Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is reviewing the potential effects of a merger on media competitiveness and is testing whether the combined company would be “fit and proper” to hold a broadcasting license. The government cited the shifting political timetable as the reason for the delay.