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Facebook confirms Cambridge Analytica harvested profile data

Teiwaz

Once their preferences had been cataloged a Cambridge Analytica computer worked out what types of emotional and visual messages would sway their views

Seems to me, there's a huge gap between capturing data and analysing it and actually using that to produce a strategy that worked.

I think CA have been given too much credit or US citizens are just gullible and easily manipulated.

No one say Brexit.

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