Engineering360: "Amid Data Use Controversy, Cambridge Analytica Shuts Down"

Lots of organizations used data to influence the outcomes of elections . . . . isn't that the point of political advertisements??

This whole thing is a tempest in a teapot.

All the 'experts' thought Hillary would win . . . . but the 'experts' were out of touch. They don't live in the real world. And they got miffed when the voters didn't vote they way they wanted them to. Waah.

It was probably the same with Brexit. I can't speak for our brethren on the other side of the pond, but I can imagine there are sentiments among the commoners that don't want to subject their sovereign country to the whims of a huge multi-national bureaucracy. I would agree with them. "Experts' like to tell other people how to think and how to live. There is wisdom in the masses.

Shuttering this company is just a way to escape the media witch-hunt. They can quietly re-organize under a different name.