Tag: Cambridge Analytica
Cambridge Analytica — Did They Target Voter Registration Files?
In Oct. 2017, a programmer found a GitHub repository with a cambridgeanalytica.org email address. The repository has since been emptied; but we were able to access an archived version.
Cambridge Analytica and the Flipping of an Election – the Law of Small Numbers
During the 2016 Presidential election, we were besieged with fake news, bots, data mining, and micro-targeted ads. We know it had an effect.
Cambridge Analytica – What Did She Just Say?
Cambridge Analytica’s Molly Schweickert—to the contrary of most media outlets and experts—claimed that their data showed a high probability of a Trump win. So, where was Cambridge Analytica getting getting its data?
Americans Should Be Alarmed by the UK Report on Cambridge Analytica and Big Data
Th UK Information Commission’s “Investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns” leaves us many clues about how U.S. citizen data was likely used and abused.
The Mystery of Twitter’s Free Pass
Mysteriously, Twitter has avoided much of the scrutiny Facebook has faced—even though Twitter has committed similar data-privacy abuses.
