Alex Kogan, the Cambridge Analytica researcher behind the sharing of millions of Facebook users’ information, said Monday that Facebook’s attacks on him are a distraction from the reality that such activities were “normal practice back then.”

“In my opinion, it’s PR spin,” Kogan told “Today” when asked about Facebook’s accusations that he was a “fraud” and a “liar.” “They’re trying to distract people from realizing that what we did was the normal practice back then. … A lot of other developers collected way more data.”