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by diggan
435 days ago
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> Cambridge Analytica (which was British, not American), Saying that the manipulation was done by the UK because Cambridge Analytica happens to be Brittish completely misconstrues what happened. > Cambridge Analytica was working for United States Senator Ted Cruz using data harvested from millions of people's Facebook accounts without their consent > Facebook later confirmed that it actually had data on potentially over 87 million users, with 70.6 million of those people from the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana... It was very much a story of manipulation in the US being done by Americans, even if there were Brittish people involved too. |
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