Here’s what you need to know about how a political data firm tied to President Trump’s campaign gained access to private information on 50 million Facebook usershttp://nyti.ms/2FLEBIG
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Christopher Wylie, who oversaw Cambridge’s data collection until 2014, said of his former company, “For them, this is a war, and it’s all fair”http://nyti.ms/2u3oXTy
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Facebook is defending its protection of user information after Cambridge Analytica harvested private information from more than 50 million profiles. But lawmakers in the U.S. and Britain are calling for greater scrutiny.http://nyti.ms/2GanHD7
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Alexander Nix, a director of SCL Group, a British political and defense contractor, and chief executive of its American offshoot, Cambridge Analytica, told the British Parliament that his company had no connections to Russiahttp://nyti.ms/2ptrhhg
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However, the firm’s employees, who often overlap, had contact in 2014 and 2015 with executives from Lukoil, the Russian oil giant. Lukoil was interested in how data was used to target American voters. http://nyti.ms/2ptrhhg pic.twitter.com/v2UH3UWp9B
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“Send some girls around to the candidate’s house”: As part of a monthslong investigation into Cambridge Analytica, a reporter from Channel 4 News in Britain secretly filmed Alexander Nix, the data firm’s chief, as he offered to entrap politicianshttp://nyti.ms/2pqOL6z
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I think you need to investigate 45 Twitter! They must be paying big money because he never gets time out or suspension for braking all cyber bullying rules and regulations
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Try going back to the Mercers data during primary- 2015 Ted Cruz campaign harvested data of FB users
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To know that Facebook is followed more than Christianity is a scary thought. I believe Zuckerberg is so "removed" from the monster he created. This may cost him. What goes up must come down. This is a warning, of sorts.
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Twitter will b next...its just a matter of time
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Nothing the Obama’s team didn’t do... with help and blessings from
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This is why I ended my NY Times subscription after 23 years! So obviously biased. When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered including the N.Y. Times. https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-scandal-trump-election-obama-2012/ … via
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You mean like the Obama campaign did in 2012?
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Hola this is what you asked for: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/975825255817207808.html … You can share this as much as you want. Enjoy :)
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It's only a matter of time b4 Twitter gets hit...I'm not a facebook user...but I do like Twitter..
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Is so normal
everything in the social media is monitored. All time!! The world it analytic for techThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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