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Peter Thiel Employee Helped Cambridge Analytica Before It Harvested Data

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>"the Russian-American psychologist Aleksandr Kogan, who built his own personality quiz app for Facebook"

Didn't hear that he was a Russian American, is it possible that Kogan is one of the academic spies?

"Mark Zuckerberg Employee Helped Cambridge Analytica Before It Harvested Data"

I mean this is getting a bit silly. Why didn't they just say "Palintir Employee".

If you read the article it says that """Palantir revised its account, saying that Mr. Chmieliauskas was not acting on the company’s behalf when he advised Mr. Wylie on the Facebook data""".

So it's a Palantir employee in their free time.

So he wasn't a "Peter Thiel Employee" either then. Can't have your cake and eat it too.

obvi

now this headline is more accurate

Stop linking paid content

Comments like yours are actually a lot more annoying than having to click the "web" button to bypass paywalls.

Let's put on our tinfoil hats for a moment: I find a bit odd the coincidence that both the personal data leaks scandal and FB's change in wall algo to show less news, appeared at virtually the same time. All this fb media lynching couldn't continue for long as long as some non liberal people like Peter Thiel can be blamed.

Let's not forget that Peter Thiel is VP at fb. If he wanted Palantir to have an app that went under the scrutiny radar of some fb data protection radar, he would've most probably been able to get that.

> "Let's put on our tinfoil hats for a moment"

Cambridge Analytica's involvement in the 2016 election has been reported since July 2015. Targeting via Facebook has been known since at least 2012 with respect to the Obama campaign, and with the Cruz, Carson, and Trump campaign since early 2016.[0] There's been an ongoing investigation into possible election improprieties, so people have been focussed on all of these areas for years. You don't need a tinfoil hat and some kind of coordinated campaign to explain that it was likely just a matter of time before something like this would hit the headlines. In this case, it appears that it was Wylie coming forward.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#2016_presi...

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