Has anyone else watched the Netflix documentary “The Great Hack”? It’s about Cambridge Analytics and how they played in social media for elections around the world up to 2016. One claim was made that Trump hired them away from Cruz helping him using Facebook. They had legal action against them in Great Britain election before ours. Part of the things that came out of that trial was the disbanded the company. However Facebook has never provided evidence that they completely destroyed their copy.
@SatuUnelmia yep, I saw that. Very enlightening. As I recall, the principals behind CA have recongealed into a new corporation--Emerdata.
@rpardee I wondered about that. Facebook/Meta has been very protective of how they obtained their data to train their AI model. Comments have been made that they used scraping of their data including Cambridge Analytics copy they had starting in 2007 I think. This could be all false because I’m making assumptions based on things I read in the past but can’t actually prove it.
@SatuUnelmia eh, FB has so much data, and so little transparency about how it gets used that I expect they don't need the old CA data to do quite a lot of bad things if they decide it's in their interest.