Facebook gave data of *57 Billion* friendships, suggests trusted partnership btw Kogan/Spectre & fb

[MelissaB]

You don't have to wonder how Cambridge Analytica is able to work across the world...

Facebook gave data about 57bn friendships to academic

Volume of data suggests trusted partnership with Aleksandr Kogan, says analyst

Before Facebook suspended Aleksandr Kogan from its platform for the data harvesting “scam” at the centre of the unfolding Cambridge Analytica scandal, the social media company enjoyed a close enough relationship with the researcher that it provided him with an anonymised, aggregate dataset of 57bn Facebook friendships.

Facebook provided the dataset of “every friendship formed in 2011 in every country in the world at the national aggregate level” to Kogan’s University of Cambridge laboratory for a study on international friendships published in Personality and Individual Differences in 2015. Two Facebook employees were named as co-authors of the study, alongside researchers from Cambridge, Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. Kogan was publishing under the name Aleksandr Spectre at the time.

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“The sheer volume of the 57bn friend pairs implies a pre-existing relationship,” said Jonathan Albright, research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. “It’s not common for Facebook to share that kind of data. It suggests a trusted partnership between Aleksandr Kogan/Spectre and Facebook.”

More: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/22/facebook-gave-data-about-57bn-friendships-to-academic-aleksandr-kogan?CMP=share_btn_tw

[CincyDem]

1. I think its 57 billion relationship pairs.

Global pop is only 7+ billion.

[MelissaB]

4. I'll change that.

Thanks.

[anneboleyn]

2. Spectre? This is worse than any Bond movie. These numbers are insane.

[Ezior]

3. Note it's not 57 billion people, but 57 billion "friendships"

since there are only ~8 billion humans alive.

An astonishing amount of data for Mr. Spectre. 9 TB of data if each friendship is stored as 16 bytes (2 long long integers, i.e. user IDs).

[MelissaB]

5. It's the populatin explosion. LOL!

I changed this. Thanks!

[Fullduplexxx]

6. Facebook needs the corporate death penalty

[backtoblue]

7. And this is how you divide and conquer

Add trolls and bots to sow discord and you have a recipe for destruction.

[CelticWinter]

8. Disband FB nt

[Delmette2.0]

9. And FB is going to "notify" everyone who was exploited? Yea, riiight. nt

[poboy2]

10. So basically this is a massive, permanent, world-wide compromised system.

Okey-dokie

[Wellstone ruled]

11. In other words,everyone who uses Face Book has been

compromised and their data is in the hands of Bannon/Mercer/entities. Way to go Zuckerberg,Traitor.