I recently listened to Jacob Siegel’s interview on The Fifth Column podcast and couldn’t help but reflect on the power of stories. I now recognize, some six years later, that the Cambridge Analytica ...
Scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica attempted to sell itself to more than 18,000 parties after going into administration in May. The company received just four offers to buy its assets, some for as little ...
Internal emails released by Facebook on Friday show employees of the company expressed concerns about Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook user data as early as September 2015. In the emails, ...
It might not surprise anyone to find out that Facebook apparently knew Cambridge Analytica was potentially misusing data for longer than it claimed—potentially calling into question the truthfulness ...
A former official at Cambridge Analytica is sharing what she considers some of the data firm's questionable practices. Brittany Kaiser worked at the British-based company from 2014 until this January ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In March 2018, Christopher Wylie blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that worked for the Trump ...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has settled a lawsuit filed against it in the wake of revelations that the company fed data from millions of users to Cambridge Analytica. AFP/Getty ...
Synopsis: On December 6, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission issued a unanimous ruling against political data firm Cambridge Analytica for violating Section 5 of the FTC Act by misrepresenting that it ...
Facebook's been slapped with the maximum fine possible by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office for its part in the Cambridge Analytics scandal. Confirming a notice of intent in July, the ICO has ...
Cambridge Analytica gathered information about people who “liked” L.L.Bean and Wrangler’s pages on Facebook to build algorithms to target people who might support Donald Trump during the 2016 ...
In it, she tells us she was driven by worry for her family after they took a couple big blows financially and medically (so, also, financially), and that she felt it necessary to make larger and ...
Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...