A data analytics firm linked to President Uhuru's re-election campaigns that was accused of designing a divisive campaign in Kenya during the last year's presidential elections has be suspended
Facebook has suspended accounts for Strategic Communication Laboratories, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm
"We are suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), including their political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, from Facebook. Given the public prominence of this organization, we want to take a moment to explain how we came to this decision and why." reads the statement from Facebook
Facebook has claimed that in 2015, the firm in question obtained Facebook user information without requesting an approval from Facebook.
"The professor lied to us and violated our platform policies by passing data from an app that was using FB login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, which does political, government and military work around the globe. He also passed that data to Christopher Wyloe of Eunoia Technologies," Facebook said
"We are committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people’s information. We will take whatever steps are required to see that this happens. We will take legal action if necessary to hold them responsible and accountable for any unlawful behavior." added Facebook on their Newsroom page:http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/suspending-cambridge-analytica/