THE FACEBOOK / CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA SCANDAL
Episode 231 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal — 87 million users' data harvested without consent through a personality quiz, sold to a political data analytics firm funded by Robert Mercer, and used to build psychographic profiles deployed in the 2016 US presidential election, the Brexit referendum, and the 2016 Cruz primary campaign. Facebook discovered in 2015 that Kogan had transferred the data to Cambridge Analytica in violation of its developer policies. Facebook asked Cambridge Analytica to certify the data had been…
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