Cambridge Analytica, the British marketing analytics firm, announced Wednesday that it was closing and would file for insolvency in Britain and the United States after failing to recover from the Facebook data scandal. The decision follows weeks of intense pressure on the company, hired by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, after allegations emerged it may have […]
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Ikechukwu Eze, the spokesman to former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has said his boss “wasn’t aware” of any use of Cambridge Analytica by his party in the country’s elections. The Nigerian government is probing claims that Cambridge Analytica, a British-based political consultancy, illegally used Facebook data in past election campaigns for the People’s Democratic […]
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The Federal Government government has set up an in-house committee to investigate the activities of the data mining firm, Cambridge Analytica, during the Nigeria’s general elections in 2007 and 2015. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the committee is to find out whether Cambridge Analytica’s work for the then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic […]
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Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that the social media company made mistakes that allowed data about users to end up with the analytics firm Cambridge Analytica and vowed the company would make changes. Zuckerberg, in his first comments since the company disclosed on Friday the misuse of personal data, said in […]
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