of course the investigations into trump's campaigns kicked loose some stones, but i'd like to think that christopher wylie's contributions made it an avalanche.bw123 wrote:I like to try and understand, that's all. No, I don't think this is FUD, but I am always suspicious when the wolves and billionaires attack each other openly in the press.
he said his reason for coming forward with this years after he left the company were seeing how trump won the election and knowing that cambridge analytica's questionable practices had a strong role in that.
one of the stations i listen to is deutschlandradio which has its roots in global, german-language broadcasts on shortwave radio. i have deep respect for their journalism, and i like that they do not lean in my direction politically.I used to like talk radio myself, but gave it up because all they do now is talk about what they read on the internet, and heck I can read.
another is the bbc world service , and then there's two random US american stations.
a few thousand (30.000 iirc) users of an app agreed to hand all their facebook data to some company affiliated with cambridge analytica, for a few bucks.I still don;t see what was the crime?
through that, CA gained access to all their friends (and friends' friends?) data, too, resulting in a 50 million facebook users data breach.
paid for by steve bannon i think, all this was used to create advertising, fake content - fearmongering - to make people vote for trump.
the data breach is the crime that cambridge analytica willl have to answer for, and also facebook/zuckerberg (i heard a very lame excuse today: he/they knew about it, but thought that CA would delete this data).
i really hope they won't manage to look like the good guys in this one.
shares are still plumetting, nyah nyah nyah.
US bigshots are questioning why certain laws about election campaigning advertisment do not apply to facebook ads, and that they should. amongst other things, i'd like to add.
i'm pretty sure that in europe there's more coming by way of regulations and fines ("up to 4% of the company's global income" is a phrase i heard).
again, don't take my word for it, find a few sources of information (it's the age of the internet godammit) and try to get a fairly objective picture.