By now I’m sure you’ve heard something about the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal. It’s all over the news and every where you look. But what is it all about, and what does it all mean? Below you will get the play by play to make sense of it all from a great article that explains everything from Wired’s Andrea Valdez, who does a great job a sifting through the drama and explaining everything you need to know.
On March 17, 2018, The New York Times, alongside The Guardian and The Observer, reported that Cambridge Analytica, a data analysis firm that worked on President Trump’s 2016 campaign, and its related company, Strategic Communications Laboratories, pilfered the data of 50 million Facebook users and secretly kept it. This revelation and its implications, that Facebook allowed data from millions of its users to be captured and improperly used to influence the presidential election, ignited a conflagration that threatens to engulf the already tattered reputation of the embattled social media giant.
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