10+ Best Articles on Cambridge Analytica
The most useful articles and videos on cambridge analytica from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Cambridge Analytica Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on cambridge analytica by Refind users in 2023 so far.
- If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
- Facebook Is Why We Need a Digital Protection Agency
- Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
- Why (almost) everything reported about the Cambridge Analytica Facebook ‘hacking’ controversy is wrong
- Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing
Videos
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Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: 'We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles'
Christopher Wylie, who worked for data firm Cambridge Analytica, reveals how personal information was taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a sy...
Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks
An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses were filmed talking ab...
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on cambridge analytica—all under 10 minutes.
If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer writer who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is the sicker for it
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents
Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie explains the science behind Cambridge Analytica’s mission to transform surveys and Facebook data into a political messaging weapon
Facebook Is Why We Need a Digital Protection Agency
It’s not just the Cambridge Analytica debacle. Ethics don’t scale.
Cambridge Analytica is out of business, but its heavy hitters have reopened under a new name
Shared by 93, including Dominik Grolimund, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, DHH
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on cambridge analytica.
Why (almost) everything reported about the Cambridge Analytica Facebook ‘hacking’ controversy is wrong
A summary of the technical info you need to know in order to properly understand the Cambridge Analytica story.
Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing
Let’s start with Facebook’s Surveillance Machine, by Zeynep Tufekci in last Monday’s New York Times. Among other things (all correct), Zeynep explains that “Facebook makes m…
Cambridge Analytica a year on: ‘a lesson in institutional failure’
One year after she broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Carole Cadwalladr discusses the state of play with whistleblower Christopher Wylie
The Cambridge Analytica Data Apocalypse Was Predicted in 2007
The scientists warned us about big data and corporate surveillance. They tried to warn themselves.
Cambridge Analytica’s "psychographic microtargeting": what’s bullshit and what’s legit
There’s no good evidence yet that personality profiling can influence elections.
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