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The global reach of Cambridge Analytica
The company accused of using the personal data of millions of Facebook users to influence how people vote is not shy about its international portfolio. Political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica is facing questions over whether it used personal data to sway the outcome of the US 2016 presidential election and the UK Brexit referendum. But its reach extends well beyond the UK and US, with its website boasting of supporting more than 100 campaigns across five continents.
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Isn't swaying outcomes what political consulting firms get paid for?
How does this differ from what the Obama 2012 campaign did? (Of course, then is was called "historic social media engagement")
Are the next batch of headlines going to be that Cambridge Analytica is actualyl a Russian-backed company?
And anyone who uses FB and is up in arms about their personal data being stolen, sold, given away, or used in any manner is a freaking moron.
How dare you? Why do you hate America? We had a really nice blatant scapegoating going on before you chimed in.
I'm just another Russian bot. Beep boop boop beep.
Hey, Business-as-usual is only illegal when Trump does it. Get that through your vacuum tubes, Ivan.