“Do these people even believe their own bull&^*?”
No. They’re paid whores.
couldn’t just one of the “writers” have written about this instead?
Tweet: Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone)
I know everyone is tired of hearing this, but the number of bombshell stories from the last four years that turned out later to be wrong or over-hyped is astounding.
Tweet: Joe Weisenthal, Co-host of the Odd Lots podcast and ‘What’d You Miss?’ on Bloomberg TV.
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Financial Times: ICO’s final report into Cambridge Analytica invites regulatory questions
A three-year inquiry into data mishandling by Cambridge Analytica by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has come up with diddly-squat. So now what?
So the entire Cambridge Analytica controversy was basically fake?
9 Oct 2020
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1314276433720758274
Tweet: Antonio García Martínez
This is such obvious revisionist bullshit.
The NYT and the rest of the tech journo circle covered the hell out of Cambridge Analytica for YEARS after the election, lending credence to what I and other ad tech insiders decried as overblown, laughable conspiracy theories.
8 Oct 2020
https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1313862663735144448
8 Oct: Financial Times: ICO’s final report into Cambridge Analytica invites regulatory questions
By Izabella Kaminska
After more than three years, Elizabeth Denham, the UK’s Information Commissioner, has closed her investigation into improper data handling by the SCL and Cambridge Analytica group.
At first glance her findings, which were released on Tuesday, dispel many of the accusations put forward by whistleblowers and digital rights campaigners over the course of 2018.
The most serious of these was that the digital marketing specialist had colluded with Russia to steer the results of the Brexit referendum and broken US campaign rules during the 2016 presidential election...
According to the final report, the Commissioner’s office is already ensuring that “any data, models and derivatives are safely destroyed” and that “several items obtained have been subsequently disowned and we are taking measures via our forensic technology provider to destroy these safely ourselves.”
That, FT Alphaville assumes, implies the underlying data that many continue to believe single-handedly “hacked” the 2016 Brexit and American elections, could soon be lost forever.
If that’s the case, it may shortly become even harder to disprove the uncomfortable proposition that Cambridge Analytica’s main data-related crime was overselling its own capabilities rather than actually hacking democracy with the help of the Russians.
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/10/06/1602008755000/ICO-s-final-report-into-Cambridge-Analytica-invites-regulatory-questions/