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Facebook investigating employee's links to ***Cambridge Analytica***
Facebook investigating employee's links to Cambridge Analytica
Facebook told CNN it is looking into ties between one of its current employees and Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm that worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign and was suspended by Facebook on Friday.
Joseph Chancellor, now a researcher at Facebook (FB), was a director of Global Science Research, a company that provided data to Cambridge Analytica. The New York Times and The Observer newspaper in London reported Saturday that Cambridge Analytica harvested information on 50 million Facebook users.
The revelations have prompted renewed scrutiny of how Facebook was used to reach and influence voters ahead of the 2016 US presidential election.
"Joseph Chancellor is an employee of Facebook. We are looking into the situation," a spokesperson for Facebook told CNN.
On Friday, Facebook announced it was suspending Cambridge Analytica and data scientist Aleksandr Kogan, Chancellor's former business colleague, from using its platform while it investigates.
More: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/18/technology/business/facebook-cambridge-analytica/index.html?sr=twCNN031818business0419PMStory
Facebook told CNN it is looking into ties between one of its current employees and Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm that worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign and was suspended by Facebook on Friday.
Joseph Chancellor, now a researcher at Facebook (FB), was a director of Global Science Research, a company that provided data to Cambridge Analytica. The New York Times and The Observer newspaper in London reported Saturday that Cambridge Analytica harvested information on 50 million Facebook users.
The revelations have prompted renewed scrutiny of how Facebook was used to reach and influence voters ahead of the 2016 US presidential election.
"Joseph Chancellor is an employee of Facebook. We are looking into the situation," a spokesperson for Facebook told CNN.
On Friday, Facebook announced it was suspending Cambridge Analytica and data scientist Aleksandr Kogan, Chancellor's former business colleague, from using its platform while it investigates.
More: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/18/technology/business/facebook-cambridge-analytica/index.html?sr=twCNN031818business0419PMStory
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