election the trump campaign paid cambridge $5.9 million during the 2016 election. this company a company that harvested data from 50 million facebook profiles. and there are about 200 million facebook users meaning one in four americans data was collected and it wasn t a data breach like equifax. they were paid to take a personality survey. only 260,000 people took that survey but they were able to scrape data from the friend s list giving them data from millions more people. but how did they do this? well by taking the survey, facebook users handed over information including their user names, what they liked on facebook and their location. and if they didn t have certain privacy settings turned on. they probably inadvertently handed over friend s lists giving them access to more data. the idea from christopher whily, was to put disinformation about a person s web experience based
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