Cambridge Analytica
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2013–2018 British political consulting firm
Key facts
- Company type
- Subsidiary
- Founded
- 2013 ; 13 years ago ( 2013 )
- Founder
- Nigel Oakes Alexander Nix Alexander Oakes
- Defunct
- May 1, 2018 ; 8 years ago ( 2018-05-01 )
- Successor
- Emerdata
- Headquarters
- London, England
- Key people
- Alexander Nix ( CEO ) , Julian Wheatland (CEO) , Robert Mercer (investor) , Rebekah Mercer (investor), Steve Bannon (vice president, former)
- Parent
- SCL Group
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Washington, D.C.
- Headquarters
- London
- Owned by
- Robert Mercer
- Parent organization
- SCL Group
- Legal form
- privately held company
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- inception
- 2014-00-00
- board member
- Rebekah A. Mercer
- Commons category
- Cambridge Analytica
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2018-05-02
- topic's main category
- Category:Cambridge Analytica
- social media followers
- 30972
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Encyclopedic overview
Cambridge Analytica Ltd. (CA), previously known as SCL USA, was a British political consulting firm that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It was founded in 2013, as a subsidiary of the private intelligence company and self-described "global election management agency" SCL Group by long-time SCL executives Nigel Oakes, Alexander Nix and Alexander Oakes, with Nix as CEO. Cambridge Analytica was hired by a variety of political actors, including the Trinidadian government in 2010 and the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. The firm maintained offices in London, New York City, and Washington, D.C. The company closed operations in 2018 due to backlash from the scandal, although firms related to both Cambridge Analytica and its parent firm SCL still exist.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cambridge Analytica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.