The recent revelations centered around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica compel me to bring this relationship to an end. Yes, Facebook, it is you.
- Buggy iPad app
- Buggy iPad messnger app
- Only trolls are participating. Everyone I want to hear from is a lurker
- You aided a hostile foreign power’s information warfare campaign directed at the US electorate, a campaign that probably resulted in the election of the worst US President ever.
- You allowed an advertising client to plunder 50 million user’s profile information
- Said advertising client left that information lying about on open or easily penetrated servers
So on Passover, the account goes.
References
This post seemed a bit of a rant so I decided to beef it up. Here are some of the references. All are of the multiple-sources, reference librarian checked, peer reviewed, and edited sort. I’ll leave it to you to follow the links, do the reading, and reach your own conclusions.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-worked-at-facebook-i-know-how-cambridge-analytica-could-have-happened/2018/03/20/edc7ef8a-2bc4-11e8-8ad6-fbc50284fce8_story.html?utm_term=.38cecc726549
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-academic-trawling-facebook-had-links-to-russian-university
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/16/15657512/cambridge-analytica-christopher-wylie-facebook-trump-russia
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/heres-a-photo-of-cambridge-analyticas-ceo-with-the-russian-ambassador-to-the-uk/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/us/cambridge-analytica-alexander-nix.html
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mercer_(businessman)
- https://ballotpedia.org/Robert_Mercer
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