Ep: 4-47 The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, why should we care.

Mid-Atlantic - conversations about US, UK and world politics

English - March 23, 2018 21:54 - 43 minutes - 40.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratings
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Facebook exposed data on 50 million Facebook users to a researcher who worked at Cambridge Analytica, which worked for the Trump campaign and a similar number of facebook users in the UK. Did Cambridge Analytica help swing the last US election and the vote Leave campaign in the UK? Why are we more worried about being manipulated politically but not our consumer habits, isn't Facebook just a bunch of cookies on steroids?

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