Contemporary · North America · Technology

2018

Cambridge Analytica scandal

March 17, 2018

Reporting in The Observer and The New York Times revealed that a political consultancy had harvested the data of eighty-seven million Facebook users to build psychological profiles for the Trump campaign. Mark Zuckerberg testified to Congress in a booster seat. The first cracks of the techlash spread across the Valley.

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Before and after in North America

Before: October 5, 2017: #MeToo erupts
After: April 10, 2019: First image of a black hole

Before and after in Technology

Before: May 12, 2017: WannaCry ransomware
After: November 30, 2022: ChatGPT goes public

Era

Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal