Cambridge Analytica, the British political consulting firm accused of meddling in Nigeria’s 2015 general elections through mining of data on Facebook, has announced that it would cease most of its operations and file for bankruptcy.

This came amid growing legal and political scrutiny of the company’s business practices and work for Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 and its involvement in the Nigerian and Kenyan presidential campaigns in 2015 and 2017 respectively, among others.

The decision to close shop was made less than two months after Cambridge Analytica and Facebook became embroiled in a data-harvesting scandal that compromised the personal information of up to 87 million people, according to the New York Times.

Revelations about the misuse of data, published in March by The New York Times and The Observer of London, plunged Facebook into crisis and prompted regulators and British and United States lawmakers to open investigations into Cambridge Analytica activities.

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