Don't Be Afraid To Break Things
Land of the Giants
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How Facebook Can Stop Giving Away Data About Your Friends
In 20 18, news broke that the trump campaign had employed a data firm by the name of cambridge analytica to help at target messaging to voters in the 20 16 us. Election. And that firm had used the data of millions of americans, all obtained through facebook. This story hit facebook hard. It came a year after revelations that russia weaponized troll farms on facebook to post political content ahead of the we. 20 16 presidential election,. content seen by more than a hundred and 26 million Americans. So why wasn't anybody fired at facebook over the situation with cambridge Analytica? You should start with easy question: Why didn't zuckerberg crack down on this
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