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"...50 million users..." Anyone know how this number was added up? Any reason not to believe it wasn't 500 million or 5 million?
by nepotism2018 9y ago
"...50 million users..."
Anyone know how this number was added up? Any reason not to believe it wasn't 500 million or 5 million?
- jimbokun 9y agoIt's the number of Facebook users whose data was accessed by Cambridge Analytica, allegedly without being authorized for how they used the data.
- mtgx 9y agoThe Guardian's original article on this says that number was shown in documents from 2015 [1]. However, the whistleblower said that by now it should be over 230 million [2]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analy... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistl...
- hanspeter 9y agoIt's 270.000 users directly impacted. The friends of those users has also been fetched, but with a limited amount of data most of which is pulic already.