Just watching Channel 4 news doing a major expose of Cambridge Analytica. It’s absolutely horrifying.
They’ve got the CEO and a couple of their other senior people on film talking about entrapping opponents of their clients using sex workers, bribes, disseminating false information etc to influence and steer elections across the globe, under different, secret company names.
Everyone should see this. It’s fucking insane.
With some sort of amusing pun attached? Sadly not. Just old Etonians stealing elections. As per.
My gut feeling was the Guardian exposé was largely fluff which pointed to some seriously unethical stuff but fell way short of absolute scandal, but it’s looking more and more like it was merely put out to light the touchpaper, so to speak.
did these lot get exposéd in German last year sometime or is this a different company?
preferred the earlier stuff.
Yeah, the Guardian stuff felt a little bit like “we know something really dodgy’s going on but we haven’t quite got the dirt we all expected”, but this is pretty much their top team caught on film going “Yeah mate, give us money and we’ll fuck up the other candidates, spread lies, do whatever you need. Oh and we’ll do all that through a shell company so no-one will know you hired us. Cheerio!”
I definitely used that mypersonality Facebook app they used to harvest all that data and build their model, feel partially responsible
The worst part is they and Facebook will get off with little more than a slap on the wrist and carry on in the same way, just taking a bit more care not to shout about it.
Facebook shares lost $30 billion in the first two hours trading this morning
…failing to report a data breach that they knew about two years ago…a 50 million strong class action lawsuit would be bye bye Zuckerberg
Fucking blows my mind that a website where people basically tell other people they’ve not spoken to in twenty years that they’re having a glass of wine after a stressful day at work could be worth €500bn.
Really enjoyed the bit at the end where the reporter was broadcasting live from outside CA HQ and read out the CA response. Something along the lines of: “we knew the person we met was dodgy and were just humouring them.” followed by the C4 journalist going, “Which is odd, because they’ve been chasing us up and asking for our business ever since”.
