https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-bans-trump-linked-campaign-data-firm-cambridge-analytica/ >Facebook said late Friday that a data analytics firm that was affiliated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign has been suspended from its service, following allegations it mishandled data obtained from hundreds of thousands of users. >The social networking giant said it learned several days ago that Cambridge Analytica, a firm that among other things helps target political messages to people online, had misused data about Facebook users. The information, such as the city they said they lived in, content they liked, and information about friends, was collected from an app called "thisisyourdigitallife" made by Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge University lecturer.