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Cambridge Analytica Took 50M Facebook Users' Data—And Both Companies Owe Answers

Cambridge Analytica Took 50M Facebook Users' Data—And Both Companies Owe Answers

Cambridge Analytica Took 50M Facebook Users' Data—And Both Companies Owe Answers

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March 26, 201810m 21s

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Cambridge Analytica, a data analysis firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 campaign, and its related company, Strategic Communications Laboratories, pilfered data on 50 million Facebook users and secretly kept it, according to two reports in The New York Times and The Guardian. The apparent misuse of Facebook data—and the social media giant's failure to police it—leave both companies with plenty still to answer for.

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