A whistleblower has thrown new light on how Cambridge Analytica, the notorious data analytics firm, breached Facebook rules to acquire private information on over 50 million people to target American voters.
The revelations raise urgent questions about the use of psychological manipulation techniques on Facebook to influence voter choices, not just in the 2016 presidential elections, but also in the Brexit referendum.
In 2016, the company was paid $6 million to mine 50-million Facebook accounts on behalf of presidential candidate Donald Trump. The information was used to craft messages to manipulate voters based on their views expressed on Facebook. Cambridge uses contractors for highly unethical operations, including the use of bribery, sexual entrapment, and blackmail. If you think politics produces strange bedfellows, this commentary will provide you with lots of support for your convictions.
From UK Secret Intelligence Service MI6 agent Christopher David Steele peddling around a fake Trump-Russia dossier so as to swing the US election towards Hillary Clinton and the DNC, to the recent data mining/Facebook scandal driven by UK firm Cambridge Analytica, manipulating 50 million US Facebook users, to swing the US election in Trump’s favor, what is now irrefutable is that the UK clearly, consistently and aggressively meddled in America’s 2016 presidential elections.
(CD) — As the damning details of Facebook’s largest-ever data breach at the hands of pro-Trump data firm Cambridge Analytica continue to pour in—and as the social media giant’s share price continues to plummet as a result—Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Monday called on CEO Mark Zuckerberg to “testify under oath” before Congress to explain why his company took so long to […]
(ZHE) — NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the suspension of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, over what Facebook says was imporoper use of collected data. In a nutshell, in 2015 Cambridge Analytica bought data from a University of Cambridge psychology […]
(CD) — Those wondering why Facebook suddenly announced late Friday night that it has banned the Trump-affiliated data firm Cambridge Analytica received a decisive answer Saturday morning, when the New York Times and the London Observer published detailed reports on how the Robert Mercer-funded company exploited Facebook to harvest the personal information of around 50 million Americans without permission—the social media giant’s “largest-ever data […]
Why would Trump be jealous?Trump has told intimates that he doesn't want to fire Defense Secretary James Mattis because Mattis "looks" like a general. Appearances mean a lot to the imbecile illegitimate "president." I've heard from someone in the office of one of Trump's cosmetic surgeons that Trump is painfully aware of how ugly he's become over the years no matter how many nips and tucks he gets.
I got stuck in some kind of a traffic jam in the Valley yesterday. The freeway just stopped. It wasn't moving slowly; it wasn't moving at all. And it was humid and around 90 degrees and I hate A/C. The one redeeming part of this little adventure was that Terry Gross had Joshua Green as her guest on Fresh Air and I could concentrate on that.
Two faces of evil-- pure evil threatening planet earthThe State University of New York at Stony Brook, my alma mater, proposed having a dinner honoring me and one of their major donors, someone who didn't go to the school but who lived a stone's throw from the Long Island campus. I recognized the name. At the time he was the single biggest contributor to Ted Cruz's presidential campaign-- far right crackpot and hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer.
