Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica Over Data Protection Concerns

[hexpunK]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cambridge-analytica/facebook-suspends-data-analytics-firm-that-worked-for-trump-campaign-idUSKCN1GT02Y

This ban also prevents the parent company of CA from using the Facebook platform as they were almost certainly complicit in violating the data protection aspects of the Facebook ToS.

For anyone not read up on Cambridge Analytica;
A quite far right leaning data analysis company
Extensive knowledge at manipulating social media users
Assisted numerous Republican candidates in their time
Pushed for the EU Leave campaign
Their parent company SCL is known for military disinformation campaigns alongside social media manipulation

Good fucking riddance.

[bord2tears]

I'm not going to complain.

[smurfy]

This is apparently the result of Facebook being reached for comment by the Guardian, who have just published a big exposé on Cambridge Analytica drawing on the testimony of a former employee who has gone full Snowden and revealed that they exploited Facebook to harvest data on 50 million people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXdYSQ6nu-M

[Hail Satan]

They also ended charging trump less than hillary to advertise on facebook for one reason or another?

I remember hearing murmurs of Bannon's connection to CA months ago. it's weird seeing a rumor uh not be a rumor anymore