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Whatever you think of individual incidents (was Cambridge Analytica a real scandal politically or just a data scandal?

Voter suppression was documented in the case of Cambridge Analytica and is a major tool of the oligarchs.

Psy-Group partnered with Cambridge Analytica (later Emerdata) to influence the 2016 US elections using social media data.

The fact that the author still thinks Cambridge Analytica meant something says a lot as well.

Whereas Cambridge Analytica involved bad actors (not Facebook) duping customers and re-selling their data.

The Cambridge Analytica stuff never got fixed, it just got hidden out of sight.

How do you prevent a Cambridge Analytica exfiltration situation with third party algorithms?

You're glossing over the nuance of the Cambridge Analytica scandal or at least I don't see how it's connected here.

In the US, both parties were literally claiming that the elections were stolen (Republicans in 2020, Democrats with the since-debunked 2016 Cambridge Analytica scandal).

Cambridge Analytica then used the data to profile millions of voters, and purposefully target divisive and flammable political material to specific suggestible people in order to manipulate outcomes.

They should have just called it an ivory tower, as that's what they're building whenever they're not busy destroying democracy with OS Backdoor lobbyism or Cambridge Analytica shenanigans.

Cambridge Analytica was a political consulting company...

The rebrand came at a time when "Facebook" was mainly associated with either tremendous scandal (Facebook Files, ad fraud, Cambridge Analytica, Rohingya and Tigray genocides, etc.) or a social media platform increasingly dominated by the elderly.

The Senate committee's report, released in five volumes between July 2019 and August 2020, found that the Russian government had engaged in an "extensive campaign" to sabotage the election in favor of Trump I'm also curious how you think Cambridge Analytica was debunked.

- AT&T “unlimited” mobile plans - Purdue Pharma's OxyContin push - Juul marketing vaping products as a "safer alternative" to smoking - Facebook's sale of user data to Cambridge Analytica - Wells Fargo opening fake accounts for people -...

The Black Cube intel firm, staffed by former Mossad agents, was employed by Cambridge Analytica, which was involved in harvesting Facebook data.

> Show HN: 65k AI voters predict UK local elections with 75% accuracy Cambridge Analytica, is that you?

Do people really not remember scandals like Cambridge Analytica, and realise that these ads combined with social media feeds can be used to literally control and manipulate peoples decisions and behavoir?