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Deep-Dark-Data-Driven Politics
Data mining is nothing new in presidential campaigns. But in 2016, the Trump team took voter research to a new level. They hired consultants called Cambridge Analytica, which says it has thousands of...
View ArticleRevisiting Cambridge Analytica’s Role in the Presidential Election
The first chapter in our look at Cambridge Analytica. Back in March, we asked the controversial digital marketing firm what services they provided for Trump. And experimented with our own psychometric...
View ArticleThe Lawsuit that Could Shine a Light on Cambridge Analytica
Pictured above is Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, speaking in November 2017. David Carroll is hunting for information. About himself. He knows himself pretty well. And so does a...
View ArticleFirm With Trump Camp Ties Obtained Data on 50 Million Facebook Users
On Friday, Facebook suspended ties with digital analytics firm Cambridge Analytica after it was revealed that 50 million Facebook profiles were harvested in a massive data breach. The profiles were...
View ArticleFirm With Trump Camp Ties Obtained Data on 50 Million Facebook Users
Here's what you'll find on today's show:— Late Friday, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions after a yet-to-be-released inspector general report found...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Breaks Silence on Facebook Scandal. Now What?
After recent revelations that 50 million Facebook profiles were harvested in a massive data breach, there are now new questions about who will rein in the social media giant and how it will protect the...
View ArticleCambridge Analytica and the Dark Arts of Voter Manipulation
This week, new stories emerged about how the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica used data from tens of millions of Facebook profiles to shape Trump's culture war. Cambridge Analytica is...
View ArticleBig, If True
Cambridge Analytica claims that, with the help of 50 million Facebook users' data, it was able to target ads so specifically and so effectively that it helped swing the election for Donald Trump. The...
View ArticleThe Facebook Alarm Bells Have Been Ringing For Years
In the week since the New York Times and the Observer of London reported that the shadowy data firm Cambridge Analytica had acquired vast troves of Facebook user data before the 2016 election, privacy...
View ArticleAccount Settings
In "Account Settings," David Remnick reports on Cambridge Analytica and a moral reckoning in Silicon Valley.
View ArticleFacebook's Political Reckoning
As Facebook faces rising scrutiny about Facebook's handling of users' private information, Mark Zuckerberg struggles to contain the damage. Next week, he'll be questioned before a congressional...
View ArticleAbout Facebook
In "About Facebook," Andrew Marantz writes about the future of Facebook after Cambridge Analytica.
View ArticleThe Fourth Amendment Needs Your Attention
This week, Note to Self gets in our time machine, back to the Supreme Court cases that defined privacy for the digital age. Stories of bookies on the Sunset Strip, microphones taped to phone booths,...
View ArticleCambridge Analytica Whistleblower Testifies to Congress
Christopher Wylie is the former director of research at Cambridge Analytica and its London affiliate, the SCL Group. But today he’s most widely known as a whistleblower. Wylie testified before the...
View ArticlePoverty Touches Not Just Pocketbooks, but Mental Health
Here's what you'll find on today's show:— Studies show that where one falls on the wealth ladder is directly correlated with health outcomes. And though the U.S. is the wealthiest country in the world,...
View ArticleWhistleblower: Cambridge Analytica Aimed to Suppress Black Voters
Facebook has come under fire for allowing ads to target specific individuals in the lead up to the 2016 election. The specifics became a little more clear at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this...
View ArticleHow Worried Should Americans Be About Facebook and Cyber Warfare?
On Monday, reports from the Senate Intelligence Committee accused Facebook of “dissembling” about its knowledge of Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 Presidential election. The next day, the Times...
View ArticleWho Has Your Data?
The documentary "The Great Hack" investigates how our personal data is collected, monetized and weaponized to sway elections. Filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim frame the story around the case of...
View ArticleThe Cambridge Analytica Whistle-Blower
Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower from inside Cambridge Analytica, and author of Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, talks about his new book, promising revelations about...
View ArticleThe Cambridge Analytica Whistle-Blower; The Making of Brett Kavanaugh; Behind...
Coming up on today's show: Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower from inside Cambridge Analytica, and author of Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, talks about his new book,...
View ArticleAnother Front In The War On Facebook
Even if the Federal Trade Commission and most of the states’ Attorneys General succeed in breaking up Facebook, other questions remain about the ongoing damage from Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp —...
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