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Manipulating Facebook

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

Judging by the way Mark Zuckerberg was cross-examined before Congress last week, you’d think Facebook was on the brink of world domination. The story goes that Facebook’s nefarious ‘data harvesting’ functions helped the shady tech firm Cambridge Analytica achieve ‘informational dominance’ over crucial swing voters during 2016’s Brexit referendum and US presidential election.

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