More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages for the Trump campaign. The dataset — of more than 50M Facebook users — is at the center […]
Cambridge Analytica’s Ad Targeting Is the Reason Facebook Exists…
“Thousands of third party apps were designed solely to obtain and sell your data. It’s no surprise that the data ended up being used again on Facebook, one of the biggest advertising platforms on Earth.”
The Problem Is Facebook, Not Cambridge Analytica…
Facebook is being hammered for allowing the data firm Cambridge Analytica to acquire 50 million user profiles in the U.S., which it may or may not have used 1 to help the Trump campaign. But the outrage misses the target: There’s nothing Cambridge Analytica could have done that Facebook itself doesn’t offer political clients. Here, […]
Ruh Roh: Former Obama Campaign Director Drops Bombshell Claim on on Facebook: ‘They Were on Our Side’…
A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do — because they were supportive of the campaign. In a Sunday tweet thread, Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, […]
Hhhhmmm: Maxine Water “the President has put in place an organization that contains a kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life”…
FLASHBACK: How Obama Tapped into Facebook’s Power…
Facebook’s Role in Data Misuse Sets Off Storms on Two Continents…
Facebook on Sunday faced a backlash about how it protects user data, as American and British lawmakers demanded that it explain how a political data firm with links to President Trump’s 2016 campaign was able to harvest private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the social network’s alerting users. Senator Amy Klobuchar […]