Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY
LONDON — Cambridge Analytica, the British firm accused of improperly harvesting Facebook data to help Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency, and its parent company quietly worked behind the scenes in elections and on big data projects for years with clients that spanned the globe.
In its 25 years of existence, the firm or its parent company, Strategic Communication Laboratories Group (SCL), has worked for political and military clients in Afghanistan, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Somalia and for the U.S. State Department.
The State Department paid SCL nearly $500,000 in 2017 for information on how Islamic State extremist propaganda motivates recruits to commit terrorism, according to public data held by its Global Engagement Center unit.
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