Democrats love to claim we stole the election. The Supreme Court stole it for Bush. The Electoral College stole it for Trump. The Russians stole it for Trump. Now Cambridge Analytica stole it from Trump. Republicans don't play fair.
The New York Times and the Observer have published articles claiming that Cambridge Analytica, via a subcontractor, stole the personal data of roughly a quarter of America's registered voters. They then used this data, harvested via Facebook, to deliver individually tailored ad campaigns. More from Reuters.
This all happened before Trump. And it appears Cambridge Analytica had already settled everything with Facebook. This originally happened in 2015. And Facebook was satisfied with how the issue was resolved. Now people are claiming Cambridge Analytica lied about deleting the data. And Facebook have banned them from the site.
I imagine this will be spun into the newest conspiracy theory of the left. It sounds plausible and it touches a raw nerve, unlike Russia. It's the sort of scandal Millennials can understand. I guess it will only take a few days to see if this thing has legs.
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