Cambridge Analytica, the firm that used data from millions of Facebook users without their knowledge, said Wednesday that it is "immediately ceasing all operations." The firm worked for President ...

W hat the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal lacks in relevance it sure makes up for in melodramatic rhetoric. Take Bloomberg, for instance, which reported, “The revelations of the apparent ...

Cambridge Analytica is being loudly criticized for apparently using massive amounts of data on 50 million Facebook users to formulate political advertising on behalf of ... some examples ...

Cambridge Analytica, the marketing research company at the heart of the Facebook data breach, is shutting down, the company said. "Earlier today, SCL Elections, as well as certain of its and ...

Cambridge Analytica worked for Sen. Ted Cruz and President Trump's 2016 campaign. The idea was to put 2016 political advertising on steroids by targeting certain people based on very specific people.

We Obtained Cambridge Analytica’s Post ... A Democratic digital advertising strategist echoes that sentiment. “When a vendor shows us their marketing materials with sample work for big ...

But in 2015, Facebook learned that Kogan had passed on that data to Cambridge Analytica, Paul Grewal, Facebook's vice president and deputy general counsel, said in a blog post.When Facebook found ...

Cambridge Analytica applies this to get people to act differently from how they had acted before – to switch their vote from Democrats to Donald Trump in key US swing states, for example. All ...

Facebook data was contorted without user consent to put a candidate in the White House. That's not today's news — it happened in 2012. That Cambridge Analytica obtained scraped Facebook data for ...

And Cambridge Analytica’s breach revolves around data that was permissibly collected by an academic researcher named Aleksandr Kogan, through an authorized app he’d created in 2013 – standard ...

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has been in the headlines for weeks as a melodrama of political intrigue that normally would be a television mini-series. There is the misuse of social media data ...

It is a complicated issue that many people might have missed, given the timing of the announcement. With that in mind, here is an overview of the groups involved, what happened - and what it means.