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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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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Facebook is over.
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Facebook was created by a man who stole the idea from his alumni. He tried to rip off his first investors and has practiced in scrupulous business practices. Why social media sights like facebook are allowed to operate without federal oversight is beyond me
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This is the world we live in now. Double down and never admit to wrong doing
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Greater scrutiny? Yes, please!
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I’m sure that they are. That defense, however, is disjointed, ignores obvious holes in their own logic, and poorly implemented overall.
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I think everyone who cares about this country and has had more than enough of Trump making a mockery of our democracy BOYCOTT FACEBOOK! They have not been truthful or forthcoming about what they know and Oran’s what their involvement was in the 2016 election!
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IMPEACH TRUMP
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Facebook!
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Can there be class action suits against both these companies?
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