11 minute read. Christoper Wylie, a ... There’s bits and pieces of new stuff in there, but one of the things I wanted to do was to use Cambridge Analytica as a case study of what can go wrong.

Cambridge Analytica stands accused of nothing more than what academics do every day: if society has concerns about how their Facebook social media personas can be used to monitor and potentially ...

In 2013, when they were both working at Cambridge, Kosinski and Stillwell were co-authors on a big study that attempted to connect the language people used in their Facebook status updates with ...

A voter-profiling firm that worked with Donald Trump’s campaign improperly obtained information on 50 million Facebook users, but experts say the data was both extremely valuable and possibly ...

The US Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over a bid by Meta's Facebook to scuttle a federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders who accused the social media platform of misleading ...

Cambridge Analytica has received a lot of press for misusing Facebook data to supposedly sway the election for the Trump campaign. The event is concerning, but its techniques of psychographics and ...

Cambridge Analytica say they played a massive role in the election of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, left, who beat Raila Odinga, right, last year A full investigation must be carried out into ...

Alexander Nix, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica (CA) plans to publish a book on his firm’s approach to online campaigning, and its role in the U.S. election. In an exclusive interview with ...

WIRED columnist Antonio Garcia Martinez on why Cambridge Analytica’s targeting efforts probably didn’t even work—and why Facebook should be embarrassed anyway.

The fallout from the Cambridge Analytica controversy is potentially huge for researchers who rely on social networks for their studies, where data is routinely shared with them for research purposes.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday approved Facebook's $725 million class action settlement, rejecting the arguments of two objectors.