From The Guardian (UK):
The claims that Cambridge Analytica used data harvested from millions of Facebook profiles to target voters in the US general election in 2016 raises tough questions for both companies.
In what appeared to be a damage limitation exercise, the social network preempted the stories that appeared in the Observer and the New York Times over the weekend by banning the political strategy company from its platform while it investigated the claims.
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In August 2016, it sent a legal letter to Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, asking him to destroy any data he held that had been improperly collected.
Facebook did not publicly disclose this at the time, and appears to have carried out no further enforcement other than requiring those who wrongly held the data to “self-certify” that they had indeed destroyed it.
www.theguardian.com/…
In case you were still wondering whether or not Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are scumbags, you can put your mind at ease. They are.
Just imagine, if back in August of 2016, instead of whispering to Brad Parscale’s goon team, “psst, hey, please delete all that stuff,” they had released a public statement about what was basically a massive data breach, how differently the election might have gone.
These Silicon Valley traitors had their thumbs on the scale the whole damn time.
Update 1: FiredUpInCA tells us in the comments that Facebook has now blocked the whistleblower from their platform: money.cnn.com/…
Stay classy, Mark & Sheryl.