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Regulators in the UK are also calling for more hearings into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

sudshr47 March 18, 2018

As more details emerge about Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data in the U.S. presidential election, members of Parliament in the UK are joining congressional leadership in the U.S. to call for a deeper investigation and potential regulatory action. The Chair of parliamentary committee investigating “fake news”, the conservative MP Damian Collins, accused both Cambridge […]

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Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked for the Trump campaign

sudshr47 March 17, 2018

Facebook announced late Friday that it had suspended the account of Strategic Communication Laboratories, and its political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica — which used Facebook data to target voters for President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election.In a statement released by Paul Grewal, the company’s vice president and deputy general counsel, Facebook explained […]

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No one can tell Russian bots from average trolls on Twitter, and that’s a very bad thing

sudshr47 February 14, 2018

Twitter’s decision to simply delete the tweets of accounts it says are part of a Russian-linked propaganda bot army has proven to be really short-sighted because, well, it turns out that those tweets are really similar to your average Twitter troll. …

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‘She would absolutely do it’: Stedman Graham fuels hopes for Oprah’s unlikely presidential run

sudshr47 January 8, 2018

Could Oprah Winfrey have just made the first speech of her political career? Not at all, but we can dream.

That’s what many people have decided on Twitter anyway, and Winfrey’s longtime partner Stedman Graham played along with their hopes.

This has all stemmed from Winfrey’s extremely moving speech upon accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award at this year’s Golden Globes. And while she didn’t explicitly say that she would run for president in 2020, many people are still pretty keen for her to do so. Read more…

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Study: Russian Twitter bots sent 45k Brexit tweets close to vote

sudshr47 November 15, 2017

Research conducted by a group of data scientists looking at how information was diffused on Twitter around the June 2016 EU referendum vote suggests more than 150,000 Russian accounts were involved in tweeting about #Brexit. Read More