The scandal erupted over the weekend when The New York Times and UK media reported that Cambridge Analytica tried to influence American voters using information gleaned from 50 million Facebook users.

Cambridge Analytica, a U.K.-based political consulting firm at the center of the recent Facebook data scandal, is "immediately ceasing all operations," the company said in a statement on Wednesday.

Facebook isn’t just the source of the data Cambridge Analytica used. It’s the reason this sort of data—organized in this way—exists in the first place.

Cambridge Analytica used this and other data — collected from data brokers and other sources — to fuel its Project Ripon, an effort to win Republican races that was named for the birthplace of ...

W hat the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal lacks in relevance it sure makes up for in melodramatic rhetoric. Take Bloomberg, for instance, which reported, “The revelations of the apparent ...

How Cambridge Analytica "weaponized" Facebook user data 09:47 "It (GSR) was grandfathered into the old, open policies. That's how they were able to collect so much data.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal, simply put, happened like this: 50 million Facebook users had their data exposed by Facebook to a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, which worked on the ...

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has been in the headlines for weeks as a melodrama of political intrigue that normally would be a television mini-series. There is the misuse of social media data ...

The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained with a simple diagram. A visual of how it all fits together. They’re now shutting down. by Alvin Chang. Updated May 2, 2018, 7:25 PM UTC ...

Cambridge Analytica, the data company hired by President Trump’s 2016 campaign, announced on Wednesday it is closing its business after it said it misused Facebook user information.

Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that worked for the Trump campaign and had come under attack for its use of personal Facebook data in other elections, announced on Wednesday it would ...