Cambridge Analytica Shuts Down All Offices Amid Ongoing Facebook Crisis
May 03, 2018•4 min
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Episode description
Cambridge Analytica, the embattled data firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, has told employees it is shutting down, along with its UK counterpart SCL Elections. The move, which impacts all offices of both companies worldwide, comes amid recent revelations that the company harvested the data of up to 87 million Facebook users without their consent, according to multiple sources close to the company.
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