Facebook Suspends Trump Election Data Firm for Policy Violations
- Data harvested from 50 million Facebook accounts: N.Y. Times
- Fighting ‘culture war,’ ex-Cambridge Analytica employee says
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Facebook Inc. suspended Cambridge Analytica, a data company that helped President Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election and which may have collected data from 50 million Facebook profiles without their owners’ permission.
The social-networking company said in a blog post Friday that Cambridge Analytica received some user data through an app developer on its social network, violating its policies. In 2015, Facebook said Cambridge Analytica certified that it had destroyed the information.