Facebook Employee Exits After Probe on Cambridge Analytica Deal

A Facebook Inc. employee who was under review regarding his role in transferring data to political consultancy Cambridge Analytica has left, the company said, without disclosing the results of its probe.

Joseph Chancellor worked at Facebook as a social psychology researcher. He was hired after co-directing Global Science Research, the company that used a personality-quiz app to obtain information from Facebook on up to 85 million Americans. GSR then improperly shared that data with Cambridge Analytica, a firm that later worked for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for U.S. president. The social network’s review of Chancellor started a few days after news reports disclosed the data transfer. Reports also revealed that Facebook knew Cambridge Analytica had the information in 2015 and asked for it to be destroyed, but it wasn’t.