Facebook suspends Trump campaign-linked data firm Cambridge Analytica

Published March 17, 2018 3:02am ET



Facebook announced Friday that it will be suspending Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm which worked worked for President Trump’s campaign, from the social media platform after it was revealed the firm did not delete data it had improperly obtained from Facebook users.

Accounts of Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, Strategic Communication Laboratories, and those of a University of Cambridge psychologist Aleksandr Kogan, and Eunoia Technologies, Inc.’s Christopher Wylie were also suspended.

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