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still_one

(91,965 posts)
Sun Mar 18, 2018, 11:31 AM Mar 2018

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Trump: What you need to know

The world's largest social network is at the center of an international scandal around voter data, the 2016 US presidential election, and Brexit.

Consultants working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign exploited the personal Facebook data of millions.
That's the key message in Saturday stories by The New York Times and the UK's Guardian and Observer newspapers, as well as in statements from Facebook. The stories and statements indicate the social networking giant was duped by researchers, who reportedly gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users, which was then misused for political ads during the 2016 US presidential election.
Until now, most of what you've heard about Facebook and the 2016 election has been focused on meddling by Russian operatives. Those efforts are being investigated by the FBI and the US Senate.

Data consultancy Cambridge Analytica represents a different problem. In its case, the UK-based company reportedly acquired data about millions of Facebook users in a way that violated the social network's policies. It then tapped that information to build psychographic profiles of users and their friends, which were utilized for targeted political ads in the UK's Brexit campaign, as well as by Trump's team during the 2016 US election.


https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-cambridge-analytica-and-trump-what-you-need-to-know/

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Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Trump: What you need to know (Original Post) still_one Mar 2018 OP
Facebook didn't care until it made headlines RainCaster Mar 2018 #1
+1. Zuckerberg couldn't care less. dalton99a Mar 2018 #2
you are right still_one Mar 2018 #3

RainCaster

(10,691 posts)
1. Facebook didn't care until it made headlines
Sun Mar 18, 2018, 11:41 AM
Mar 2018

Really, they still don't give a shirt but they are ginning up some fake outrage so that they have the appearance of caring about our privacy.

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