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by _jal 2106 days ago
If that disclosure statement means what it is apparently meant to imply, it would of course be substantially more interesting to hear what you know, rather than talking about accusations, no?

But if you actually want a refresher, and for anyone else,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

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Well I'm not willing to provide any proof of my identity, so you have no reason to take what I say as legitimate. Indeed, I've seen lengthy posts of utter nonsense from others who claimed to work at CA.

Usually, even the generally available facts are a lot better than most people's understandings of the situation. For example, most people seem to think that this scandal proved that Facebook sell their user data, whereas it actually is alleged that CA took advantage of the well-documented public API that Facebook used to have, where any app vendor could download data on friends of friends who had given permissions to the app.

If you have specific questions, I would be happy to point you in the right direction.