The company says it was essential to President Trump's victory, but both Trump and other former clients are downplaying the role of its trademark psychological profiling.
The FBI investigation into Russian election interference already includes exploration of how far-right media outlets propelled Russian disinformation. What role did Cambridge Analytica (and Steve Bannon) play in leveraging Russian disinformation on behalf of the Trump campaign? Justin Hendrix connects the dots.
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Christopher Wylie said the firm shared breached data with Russia Intelligence, alleging that CA openly shared information with the Russian FSB - formerly known as the infamous KGB.
Zuckerberg, Facebook VP Dan Rose and COO Sheryl Sandberg joined some of the world's most powerful and influential people from the media, finance, technology and political spheres.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook announced on Friday that has suspended the data-analytics firms, Cambridge Analytica and Strategic Communication Laboratories from its platform, for its handling of user data. "Protecting people's information is at the heart of what we do, and we require the same from people who operate apps on Facebook," a company executive said in a press release. President Donald Trump's campaign used Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 election as part of its
In a live interview with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie, Christopher Wylie, a former employee of British company Cambridge Analytica, says the company misused personal Facebook data of some 50 million people to help influence the 2016 presidential election. Wylie says the company met with former Trump campaign manager (and current outside adviser) Corey Lewandowski, former chief strategist Steve Bannon as well as Russian oil companies.
New details are emerging about how the shadowy data firm Cambridge Analytica worked to manipulate voters across the globe, from the 2016 election in the United States to the Brexit campaign in Britain and elections in over 60 other countries, including Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil. A new trove of internal Cambridge Analytica documents and emails are being posted on Twitter detailing the company’s operations, including its work with President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton. The documents come from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser, who worked at the firm for three-and-a-half years before leaving in 2018. We speak with Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, co-directors of the Oscar shortlisted documentary “The Great Hack”; Brittany Kaiser, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower featured in “The Great Hack” and author of “Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower’s Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again”; and Emma Briant, a visiting research associate in human rights at Bard College whose upcoming book is titled “Propaganda Machine: Inside Cambridge Analytica and the Digital Influence Industry.”
You’ll want to delete your Facebook account.
DeleteFacebook is trending because Facebook users are livid about the poor handling of Cambridge Analytica's data harvesting (FB). So Over the weekend, Cambridge Analytica founder Christopher Wylie came forward to say that his company had gathered information from 50 million Facebook users and used it to target voters during the 2016 election, according to extensive reporting done by Evibez. Wylie said Facebook knew in 2015 that it had gathered information, and asked Cambridge Analytica to delete the data, but never followed up to check if it did. (Spoiler alert: It did not.) Cambridge Analytica, a data-analytics company that worked for the Trump campaign in 2016, pulled user information by paying people to take a quiz, and then proceeded to use the information it gathered from the users' friends without their permission, or permission from Facebook. Cambridge Analytica founder Christopher Wylie came forward about the illegitimate use of data in an interview over the weekend, saying Facebook knew his company had gathered a large sum of data back in 2015. At the time, Facebook deleted the quiz and company lawyers sent a letter to Cambridge Analytica asking they delete the information, but Facebook never followed up to make sure the deed was done, according to Wylie. Users are taking to Twitter to express their anger at the irresponsible use of their data, using the hashtag #DeleteFacebook: Facebook finally suspended Cambridge Analytica from its platform. A couple of days later, it suspended Wylie's Facebook and Instagram accounts. Both companies are now under investigation, and Facebook's stock has dropped 8% from market close on Friday. Users angered by the irresponsible use of their data are taking to Twitter using the hashtag #DeleteFacebook and removing all Facebook-owned applications including Instagram and WhatsApp.
Cambridge Analytica, the data firm the Trump campaign used during the 2016 election, met with Russian business executives, The New York Times reported Saturday. The firms’ employees had been in contact with executives from Russian oil giant Lukoil in 2014 and 2015, according to company documents. There were reportedly three meetings with Lukoil executives in London and Turkey…
The admissions were recorded during a probe into the firm, which was hired by President Trump’s 2016 campaign.
An investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran ‘all’ of President Trump’s digital campaign - and may have broken election law. As the report went on air, the firm announced it has suspended chief executive Alexander Nix, pending a full investigation.
