Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Trump campaign
Fifty million people on Facebook had their identities harvested for political purposes.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readFifty million people on Facebook had their identities harvested for political purposes. We find out how a professor in Britain was able to convince Facebook to let him run an experiment on its users without their knowledge, and how that information winded up at a company called Cambridge Analytica -- run by Steve Bannon and funded by conservative Robert Mercer.
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The full episode
1 of 5California case: free speech v. abortion rights- 0:00Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Trump campaignYou’re reading this
- 11:20Uber self-driving car kills pedestrian in Arizona
- 17:00Supreme Court to hear California case pitting free speech against abortion rights
- 25:50Survivalist upbringing to an Ivy League education
- 44:10What does it mean to 'feel your oats?'