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A committee of MPs is set to warn of the "democratic crisis" of fake news and data misuse, heavily criticising Facebook.

It follows Channel 4 News' investigations into Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Brexit campaign:
channel4.com/news/data-demo…
Read the full Channel 4 News investigation into Cambridge Analytica - Data, Democracy and Dirty Trick

channel4.com/news/data-demo…
On 17 March we reported: "Cambridge Analytica: Whistleblower reveals data grab of 50 million Facebook profiles"

On March 19 we reported: "Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks"

On 20 March we reported: Exposed: Undercover secrets of Trump’s data firm

On 20 March we reported "Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix suspended"

channel4.com/news/cambridge…
On 24 March we reported: "Brexit campaign was ‘totally illegal’, claims whistleblower"

On 28 March we revealed: Cambridge Analytica data on thousands of Facebook users still not deleted

On 29 March, Channel 4 News reported on the demise of a deal to harvest data from a million Mexican citizens – which was cancelled following the start of our investigation.

On 3 May 2018 we reported "The former boss of Cambridge Analytica screeched off in his Audi when we tried to ask about the company being wound up following investigations by Channel 4 News and The Observer. " channel4.com/news/ex-cambri…
On 6 June, Alexander Nix was grilled by MPs and said he was “tricked” into boasting to an undercover reporter – working for this programme – that his political strategy firm used honeytraps and bribery to smear political opponents. channel4.com/news/reaction-…
On 11 June, Facebook respond to facing £500k fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal in an interview with @KrishGM. channel4.com/news/facebook-…
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As one of the UK's most successful business owners, Jacqueline talks to @krishgm about sexual culture, empowering women and what's holding back the high street.

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I’ve run for Congress and worked on several of my husband’s campaigns. INTERNAL poll data are closely guarded.

Yet Trump’s highly experienced campaign chair (Manafort) willfully gave this VERY sensitive info to a #Russian🇷🇺spy (Kilimnik) with #GRU👉🏼hacked the #DNC.

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#Facebook thread:
Ahead of Zuckerberg's Congress testimony, a quick revision guide.
All you need to know about Facebook (and why you should be concerned), brought to you by the Observer/Guardian's investigation into data and democracy...
Hard to believe it was less than a month ago that @carolecadwalla broke the story about GSR harvesting 50m+ Facebook profiles for @CamAnalytica to use in political campaigning:
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica.. theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Via the first major interview with @CamAnalytica whistleblower @chrisinsilico which explained Facebook had known about the leak for at least 18months and detailed Robert Mercer / Steve Bannon's central roles ‘I made Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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Facebook has some really creepy plans!
Just check their patents!
Small thread with thanks to @jashkenas 👇

1⃣ Facebook wants to track your eye movements
using special infrared LEDs that shine into your pupil & cornea to determine gaze patents.google.com/patent/US20180… #Facebook #privacy
Facebook wants to reads your comments for positive or negative “affinity scores”
to generate sentiments and “trust scores”
and use the resulting data sets from trusted users
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to manipulate people..
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Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters  theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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They used personal information taken without authorization in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to target them with personalised political advertisements.
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Facebook bans Trump campaign’s data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, for stealing user data wapo.st/2phRGOQ
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