Claims that Cambridge Analytica used data to target voters in US election raises tough questionsThe claims that Cambridge Analytica used data harvested from millions of Facebook profiles to target voters in the US general election in 2016 raises tough questions for both companies.
In what appeared to be a damage limitation exercise, the social network preempted the stories that appeared in the Observer and the unusual York Times over the weekend by banning the political strategy company from its platform while it investigated the claims. Related: ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com