Cambridge Analytica is Shutting Down

[SFB]

Exact same shit. Obama's app was scraping people's friend's pages just the same, the only difference is Facebook was proud to help Obama Your own political tribalism is showing.

KEK... take a look at my post (5 above yours) most of your questions are answered.

Funny how triggered people get before the actually read / look for the truth. Especially if it might conflict with their assumed beliefs.

Please watch video below about "junk" news and how easy people are manipulated.

 

[IdiotInCharge]

A lot has changed since 2012.

The tools evolved, the campaigns evolved.

Honestly that the GOP evolved to use the new tools should surprise most Democrats/liberals/leftists.

 

[Burticus]

They'll just change the name to something else like Democratic Analysis or something

 

[GoldenTiger]

For all the people going "But but Obama did it too"

A. That doesn't make it right, then or now. You are engaging in the same stupid bullshit "defense" that you'd hear from a school playground. Knock it off.

B. A lot has changed since 2012. There is a hell of a lot more scrutiny put up on what companies do and how our data is used. People are still idiots with what they share, but we've had both the Target hack and the Equifax breach since 2012. Those events, among others that have happened, have changed how data is talked about and how people look at massive breaches of data.

A: it's a double standard on your and others' parts.
B: This isn't a data breach. It was using Facebook tools to gather legitimately obtained data.

 

[Derangel]

A: it's a double standard on your and others' parts.
B: This isn't a data breach. It was using Facebook tools to gather legitimately obtained data.

A. Double standard? The fuck are you talking about? Did I not fucking say that it was wrong THEN AND NOW?

B. Mhm. The initial reports placed it as a breach which is what started the media frenzy and spilled over into the general populace frenzy. Then idiots realized that all the stupid shit they post all over Facebook has been farmed. Something that everyone (even outlets like Fox News) kind of glossed over the last time because people really didn't think it was a big deal back then.

 

[Wierdo]

https://www.metro.us/news/the-big-stories/cambridge-analytica-backers-new-data-company-emerdata

"It's unclear what UK-based Emerdata does, but the Mercers are involved, along with Cambridge Analytica executives and Betsy DeVos's brother."

According to public records from Britain's Companies House, Emerdata's board of directors include Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer, daughters of the hedge-fund billionaire and primary Cambridge Analytica investor Robert Mercer. They were appointed to the board on March 15. Also listed as directors: Alexander Nix, the suspended Cambridge Analytica CEO; and the deputy director of the company chaired by Trump supporter Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater and brother-in-law of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Small world.