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.

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 has come under increasing scrutiny amid reports that a London-based data mining firm named Cambridge Analytica had improperly obtained user data from as many as 87 million people and that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 data-mining company is embroiled in scandal with Facebook over the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Cambridge Analytica reportedly has been involved in over 200 elections, including Kenya.

There is a second part of the scandal, but it concerns Cambridge Analytica and its connection to President Trump’s political world. So, here’s my summary in two paragraphs: ...

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 ...