[nepotism2018]

"...50 million users..."

Anyone know how this number was added up? Any reason not to believe it wasn't 500 million or 5 million?

[mtgx]

The Guardian's original article on this says that number was shown in documents from 2015 [1]. However, the whistleblower said that by now it should be over 230 million [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analy...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistl...

[jimbokun]

It's the number of Facebook users whose data was accessed by Cambridge Analytica, allegedly without being authorized for how they used the data.

[hanspeter]

It's 270.000 users directly impacted. The friends of those users has also been fetched, but with a limited amount of data most of which is pulic already.