Facebook users who say their personal data was misused, potentially to distort the last US election, will find out whether they can squeeze more information out of a quickly evaporating company that played a role: Cambridge Analytica.
The political consulting firm is winding down both in the UK, its home country, and in a New York Chapter 7 bankruptcy case. Some of the dozens of Facebook users who sued it and Facebook in district court this year as “data breach plaintiffs” to ask a US bankruptcy judge if they can gather more information about Cambridge Analytica’s finances.