{"id":359421,"date":"2018-05-02T23:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-cambridge-analytica-shutting-down\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T23:43:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T22:43:02","slug":"presstv-cambridge-analytica-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-cambridge-analytica-shutting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Cambridge Analytica shutting down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The British company at the center of the data scandal gripping Facebook is shutting down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cambridge Analytica announced Wednesday that it is ceasing all operations.<\/p>\n<p>The political consulting firm has reportedly been losing its staff since March, when it was revealed that it had improperly obtained data on 87 million users on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While this decision was extremely painful for Cambridge Analytica\u2019s leaders, they recognize that it is all the more difficult for the Company\u2019s dedicated employees who learned today that they likely would be losing their jobs as a result of the damage caused to the business by the unfairly negative media coverage,&#8221; Cambridge Analytica said in a statement. &#8220;Despite the Company\u2019s precarious financial condition, Cambridge Analytica intends to fully meet its obligations to its employees, including with respect to notice periods, severance terms, and redundancy entitlements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180502\/af410521-7aef-455a-9808-9a5296338565.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>A view of 597 Park Avenue, where&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/05\/02\/560454\/Cambridge-Analytica-shutting-down\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British company at the center of the data scandal gripping Facebook is shutting down. Cambridge Analytica announced Wednesday that it is ceasing all operations. The political consulting firm has reportedly been losing its staff since March, when it was revealed that it had improperly obtained data on 87 million users on Facebook. &#8220;While this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":359422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}