According to the New York Times and the Observer, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign hired Cambridge Analytica, a data-analytics company that harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users.
Christopher Wylie, a data scientists and a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, blowed the whistle on the company recently.
Facebook is suspending the accounts of Strategic Communication Laboratories, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, as well as the accounts of University of Cambridge psychologist Aleksandr Kogan and Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies. Kogan is also an associate professor at the St Petersburg University with a grant from the Russian government to study ‘Stress, health and psychological wellbeing in social networks’. Read more on Kogan on Varsity News.
Channel 4 News on Cambridge Analytica
The Guardian Interviews Christopher Wylie
‘We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles’
Channel 4 Interviews Christopher Wylie
