Self-described whistleblower suspended by Facebook after Cambridge Analytica reports
Source: The Hill
Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, claims Facebook suspended him for whistleblowing.
Wylie's claim comes after Cambridge Analytica, the data firm used by the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, was exposed for having illegally harvested the Facebook data of millions of people.
On Sunday, Wylie shared a screenshot of an account disabled message that he said came from Facebook. He said the company suspended him for revealing something that they had already known for two years.
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Cambridge Analytica was suspended by Facebook on Friday for not fully deleting data it obtained from Aleksandr Kogan, a University of Cambridge professor. Kogan had gathered the data via an app he had created, which used a Facebook login.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/379022-self-described-whistleblower-suspended-by-facebook-after-cambridge
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)dchill
(38,474 posts)That's how we make it big today!
herding cats
(19,564 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)Please read the following article
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)CelticWinter
(1,399 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,585 posts)The Mercers need to be investigated and charged due to their collaboration with CA and so does Bannon.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/17/1749894/-Howard-Dean-says-this-means-Treason
What the Mercers did is referring to several stories that have been posted by the New York Times and the UK's and the Guardian newspapers exposing in detail the fascistic sabotage (not their words; I get to say a few things here too) of Cambridge Analytica. That was the data crunching firm that was: A) funded by Robert and Rebecca Mercer, B) headed up by Steve Bannon, and C) whose main data crunching bastard was Brad Parscale (lately named head of the Trump 2020 re-election campaign/fleecing/scam.) The two newspapers, apparently with slightly different sourcing, reveal the links between CA, what and how they used Facebook (and why THEY are suddenly running scared and have just booted CA off the platform; talk about closing the cyber-barn door after the stampede ran through 157 years ago---way to get right on that, Zuckerberg!). Lukoil is involved, a Russian oil firm on the sanctions list who, gee, suddenly was willing to pay a few million bucks for
.wait for it
. election demographic information for the 4th ward, precinct 11 in Akron, OH! shrugs I dont know the oil business at all, so I guess they saw a marketing or drilling opportunity there, huh?).
karynnj
(59,502 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)... but maybe he's hiding his true whereabouts. The Guardian in a British publication.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)TNLib
(1,819 posts)I left a last FB message to let people know. Until there is actually real governance for privacy protection I'm pretty much done with social media. It just seems like the wild west out there. Not to mention all the trolls with fake accounts and Russian bots.