The Cambridge Analytica-Facebook Scandal and the Coming Data Bust
From today’s New York Times: The queasy truth at the heart of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, which is so far the company’s defining disgrace of 2018, is that its genesis…
Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users
From today’s New York Times: Facebook on Wednesday said that the data of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with a political consulting firm connected to…
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Cambridge Analytica CEO Suspended, Involved in Hacking American Elections
From National Public Radio News: Cambridge Analytica has suspended its CEO, Alexander Nix. The London-based company, which is accused of using data from 50 million Facebook users to influence the…
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How Tech Companies are Waging “Psyops” Warfare on American and British Democracies
From yesterday’s Guardian by Carole Cadwalladr: In June 2013, a young American postgraduate called Sophie was passing through London when she called up the boss of a firm where she’d…