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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