Strangely, some still find a way to insert anti-Russia element in a story that is fundamentally about American and British establishment undermining their own democracieshttps://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/976443258699120640 …
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@evgenymorozov: “instead of letting Facebook get away with charging us for its services or continuing to exploit our data for advertising, we must find a way to get companies like Facebook to pay for accessing our data – ... as something we own in common”https://theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/31/big-data-lie-exposed-simply-blaming-facebook-wont-fix-reclaim-private-information?__twitter_impression=true …Show this thread -
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@EllenBarryNYT of Nigel Oakes, founder of the SCL Group, a firm at the center of a trans-Atlantic scandal over data mining and voter manipulation that has held defense contracts with the British and American governmentshttps://nytimes.com/2018/04/20/world/europe/oakes-scl-cambridge-analytica-trump.html#click=https://t.co/OA7CFw9Iv6 …Show this thread -
"The data firm at the center of Facebook's privacy scandal is declaring bankruptcy and shutting down. In a statement, Cambridge Analytica says it has been "vilified" for actions it says are both legal and widely accepted as part of online advertising."https://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-firm-center-facebook-privacy-183414209.html?soc_trk=gcm&soc_src=69f70237-124f-3ea9-acd0-fc922af945e2&.tsrc=notification-brknews …
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"Strategic Communications Laboratories, best known for its work with its offshoot and collaborator
#CambridgeAnalytica, appears to have an open contract with the State Department."https://www.axios.com/cambridge-analytica-may-still-have-an-open-contract-with-th-1521494535-64a045dd-bfe3-4a7a-8439-a54f1ae13860.html …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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On November 2017,
#CambridgeAnalytica's local partner in Brazil "said he’s working to “tropicalize” Cambridge Analytica’s methodology ahead of the elections, adapting them to the local environment"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-20/cambridge-analytica-partner-won-t-stomach-brazil-fringe-politics …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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"An undercover investigation by
@Channel4News reveals how#CambridgeAnalytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers."https://youtu.be/mpbeOCKZFfQShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This by
@nickstatt is very helpful: "beyond deleting your#Facebook account for good — there are some precautions you can take to protect your privacy and make use of Facebook as a utility without compromising your personal data"#FacebookDataBreachhttps://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17140422/facebook-personal-data-deletion-how-to-cambridge-analytica-privacy-scandal-trump-campaign …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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#CambridgeAnalytica "harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission, according to former Cambridge employees, associates and documents"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign.html …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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"A U.S. resident has sued Facebook and a British-based political consultancy for obtaining data from millions of the social media site’s users without their permission, while an academic at the center of the storm accused both firms of scapegoating him."https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cambridge-analytica/facebook-and-uk-political-consultancy-sued-in-data-storm-idUSKBN1GX0OG?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social …
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#CambridgeAnalytica "was offered material from Israeli hackers who had accessed the private emails of two politicians who are now heads of state"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/cambridge-analytica-offered-politicians-hacked-emails-witnesses-say?CMP=share_btn_tw …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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#CambridgeAnalytica, “pivotal” in Donald Trump’s presidential victory, was behind a ‘data grab’ of more than 50 million Facebook profiles, whistleblower Chris Wylie, former Research Director at CA, has revealed to@Channel4Newshttps://youtu.be/zb6-xz-geH4Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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"An investigation by
@Channel4News has revealed how#CambridgeAnalytica claims it ran ‘all’ of President Trump’s digital campaign - and may have broken election law. Executives were secretly filmed saying they leave ‘no paper trail’."https://youtu.be/cy-9iciNF1AShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Sulliview: "Zuckerberg hadn’t publicly said a word about the#CambridgeAnalytica scandal ... That is appalling, of course, but it wasn’t exactly hard to predict. And, more important, it’s helpful. It illuminates."https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/no-billionaires-wont-save-us-thats-a-myth-that-links-zuckerberg-and-trump/2018/03/20/88c2fec0-2c5c-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html?utm_term=.53e0cfac4da1 …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Liam_O_Hare: "Board members include an array of Lords, Tory donors, ex-British army officers and defense contractors. This is scandal that cuts to the heart of the British establishment."#CambridgeAnalyticahttp://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/03/20/scl-a-very-british-coup/ …Show this thread -
"The organisation boasts that it has conducted “behavioral change programs” in over 60 countries and its clients have included the British Ministry of Defence, the US State Department and NATO."https://twitter.com/bernajurema/status/976598942971564032 …
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@ProfessorShaw on what the#CambridgeAnalytica story tells us about social sciences and military/state propaganda and psy-ops: "It is typical of the kind of dual-use research that has shaped the field of social psychology in the US since World War II."https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/21/the-digital-military-industrial-complex/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@yashalevine: "Today’s internet business ecosystem is built on for-profit surveillance, behavioral profiling, manipulation and influence. [...] So our present-day freakout over#CambridgeAnalytica needs to be put in the broader historical context" https://thebaffler.com/latest/cambridge-analytica-con-levine …pic.twitter.com/2eZCwltX3w
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Facebook whistleblower Sandy Parakilas: “Facebook was giving data of people who had not authorised the app themselves, and was relying on terms of service and settings that people didn’t read or understand.”https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-cambridge-analytica-sandy-parakilas …
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@AdrianChen: "today’s spinmasters hope that big data will allow them to manipulate voters’ deepest hopes and fears".#CambridgeAnalytica] "is as much a symptom of democracy’s sickness as its cause."https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/cambridge-analytica-and-our-lives-inside-the-surveillance-machine …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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