Self-described whistleblower suspended by Facebook after Cambridge Analytica reports

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, claims Facebook suspended him for whistleblowing.

Wylie's claim comes after Cambridge Analytica, the data firm used by the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, was exposed for having illegally harvested the Facebook data of millions of people.

On Sunday, Wylie shared a screenshot of an “account disabled” message that he said came from Facebook. He said the company suspended him for revealing something that they had already known for two years.

Link to tweet

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Cambridge Analytica was suspended by Facebook on Friday for not fully deleting data it obtained from Aleksandr Kogan, a University of Cambridge professor. Kogan had gathered the data via an app he had created, which used a Facebook login.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/379022-self-described-whistleblower-suspended-by-facebook-after-cambridge

[rockfordfile]

1. If true, then it seems that facebook is a un-American company.

[dchill]

3. Ignoring everything but profits is VERY American.

That's how we make it big today!

[herding cats]

2. Itll be interesting to hear Facebooks reasoung for this if its true.

[underthematrix]

4. I notified all my FB friends I'm closing my account March 31st.

[alwaysinasnit]

5. The problem is likely even worse than we think

Please read the following article

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump

[stuffmatters]

8. TY. Excellent article essential reading

[CelticWinter]

6. Deleted my fb account nt

[laserhaas]

7. More stories coming out

Link to tweet

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[BigmanPigman]

9. Facebook should be facing lawsuits soon too.

The Mercers need to be investigated and charged due to their collaboration with CA and so does Bannon.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/17/1749894/-Howard-Dean-says-this-means-Treason

“What the Mercers did” is referring to several stories that have been posted by the New York Times and the UK's and the Guardian newspapers exposing in detail the fascistic sabotage (not their words; I get to say a few things here too) of Cambridge Analytica. That was the data crunching firm that was: A) funded by Robert and Rebecca Mercer, B) headed up by Steve Bannon, and C) whose main data crunching bastard was Brad Parscale (lately named head of the Trump 2020 re-election “campaign/fleecing/scam.”) The two newspapers, apparently with slightly different sourcing, reveal the links between CA, what and how they used Facebook (and why THEY are suddenly running scared and have just booted CA off the platform; talk about closing the cyber-barn door after the stampede ran through 157 years ago---way to get right on that, Zuckerberg!). Lukoil is involved, a Russian oil firm on the sanctions list who, gee, suddenly was willing to pay a few million bucks for….wait for it…. election demographic information for the 4th ward, precinct 11 in Akron, OH! “shrugs” I don’t know the oil business at all, so I guess they saw a marketing or drilling opportunity there, huh?).

[karynnj]

10. Is Wylie in England? His message refers to the "help CENTRE" nt

[FakeNoose]

11. The article says he's in Canada now

... but maybe he's hiding his true whereabouts. The Guardian in a British publication.

[Skittles]

12. WHY do people stay on that piece of shit site

[TNLib]

13. I'm taking a break from FB for awhile and will probably delete my account at end of the month

I left a last FB message to let people know. Until there is actually real governance for privacy protection I'm pretty much done with social media. It just seems like the wild west out there. Not to mention all the trolls with fake accounts and Russian bots.