From NBC News on Twitter:
And from the article linked in the tweet:
Facebook announced on Wednesday that user data for as many as 87 million people may have been "improperly shared" with Cambridge Analytica, a data analysis firm that worked with President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
This is the first time Facebook has publicly quantified the scope of the data harvesting scandal and is considerably more than the previously reported figure of 50 million, which had been an estimatebased on accounts from former Cambridge Analytica employees and company documents.
"In total, we believe the Facebook information of up to 87 million people — mostly in the US — may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica," wrote Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer of Facebook, in a blog post announcing new rules for how the company plans to share user data.
www.nbcnews.com/…
Suffice to say that if 87 million is the number Facebook is admitting to, that the actual number is probably even higher. Even if the number is accurate, it is still well over half of the 138 million Americans who voted in 2016.
Considering that Hillary lost the Electoral College by a mere 70,000 votes across three states, it suddenly seems likely that the conspiracy between Cambridge Analytica, Russia, Trump, and Facebook tipped the results in favor of Trump.
May they all be held accountable for this act of war.
Update 1: From DoctorWho in the comments:
Nearly 2 BILLION, yes, billion have had their FB data shared with third parties.