Cambridge Analytica Scandal Exposed by Whistleblower Christopher Wylie

2018-03-17 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10 | Status: confirmed

Christopher Wylie reveals Cambridge Analytica harvested 87 million Facebook profiles without consent for political manipulation, triggering global privacy crisis

Key Actors

Christopher Wylie Cambridge Analytica Facebook Aleksandr Kogan Steve Bannon Robert Mercer

Tags

whistleblower social-media-democratic-corruption digital-information-warfare whig-template-digital-evolution systematic-cognitive-manipulation cambridge-analytica election-manipulation psychological-targeting-systems algorithmic-information-control constitutional-information-violations facebook-scandal surveillance-capitalism-weaponization privacy-violation data-breach systematic-democratic-manipulation

Sources (5)

Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested (2018-03-17)
How Cambridge Analytica turned Facebook likes into political tool (2018-03-17)
Cambridge Analytica scandal: Everything you need to know (2018-03-21)
Facebook-Cambridge Analytica: A timeline of the data hijacking scandal (2018-04-10)
'The Great Hack': Cambridge Analytica is just the tip of the iceberg (2019-07-24)

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