Yet another group for which Facebook has to answer. Zuckerberg should be getting a tad sweaty by now. That sweat must make it hard to hang on to all of that cash made on the backs of American voters.
The Trump campaign-linked political data-mining outfit out of Britain, Cambridge Analytics, illicitly used FB in waging a campaign of support for Trump’s election by, among other reported shenanigans, scavenging private information from 50 million FB users without their knowledge. Its CEO has now been suspended after being caught on hidden camera boasting about all kinds of nasty things. As the New York Times reports:
“Cambridge Analytica, the political data firm with ties to President Trumps 2016 campaign, suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix, on Tuesday, amid the furor over the access it gained to private information on more than 50 million Facebook users. The decision came after a television broadcast in which Mr. Nix was recorded suggesting that the company had used seduction and bribery to entrap politicians and influence foreign elections.
“The suspension represented a new low point for the fortunes of Cambridge Analytica and for Mr. Nix, who spent much of the past year making bold claims about the role his outfit played in the election of Mr. Trump. The company, founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Robert Mercer, a wealthy Republican donor who has put at least $15 million into it, offered tools that it claimed could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.
“So-called psychographic modeling techniques, which were built in part with the data harvested from Facebook, underpinned Cambridge Analyticas work for the Trump campaign in 2016. Mr. Nix once called the practice our secret sauce, though some have questioned its effectiveness. But in recent days, the firm has found itself under increased scrutiny from lawmakers, regulators and prosecutors in the United States and Britain following reports in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the Facebook data, and that it still had a copy of the information.”
This is a political cartoon. Please bear in mind that GoComics itself specifically identifies these cartoons in this particular forum under the category of “Political Cartoons“ and posts them here as such.
The purpose of political cartoons is to express the signed, personal political perspectives of their creators.
Readers are invited to come here to express their own personal opinions about the messages conveyed in these political cartoons.
Complainers, such as some seen in this thread, ignorantly demand that all political cartoons be disallowed from appearing in this forum because they mistakenly think this commentary section is a comic-strip forum instead of actually being a political-cartoon forum.
I frequently deal with ctitics suffering from this fundamental blindspot.
This is where political cartoonists step in as elementary school teachers for those who evidence a need for basic education when it comes to the purpose of this specific forum as an arena for publishing and discussing political cartoons.
How else are republicans going to win elections? If they can’t gerrymander, they will have to steal, if they can’t steal, they’ll have to work with Russia again.
GoneGirl about 6 years ago
Yet another group for which Facebook has to answer. Zuckerberg should be getting a tad sweaty by now. That sweat must make it hard to hang on to all of that cash made on the backs of American voters.
SteveBenson4 about 6 years ago
The Trump campaign-linked political data-mining outfit out of Britain, Cambridge Analytics, illicitly used FB in waging a campaign of support for Trump’s election by, among other reported shenanigans, scavenging private information from 50 million FB users without their knowledge. Its CEO has now been suspended after being caught on hidden camera boasting about all kinds of nasty things. As the New York Times reports:
“Cambridge Analytica, the political data firm with ties to President Trumps 2016 campaign, suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix, on Tuesday, amid the furor over the access it gained to private information on more than 50 million Facebook users. The decision came after a television broadcast in which Mr. Nix was recorded suggesting that the company had used seduction and bribery to entrap politicians and influence foreign elections.
“The suspension represented a new low point for the fortunes of Cambridge Analytica and for Mr. Nix, who spent much of the past year making bold claims about the role his outfit played in the election of Mr. Trump. The company, founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Robert Mercer, a wealthy Republican donor who has put at least $15 million into it, offered tools that it claimed could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.
“So-called psychographic modeling techniques, which were built in part with the data harvested from Facebook, underpinned Cambridge Analyticas work for the Trump campaign in 2016. Mr. Nix once called the practice our secret sauce, though some have questioned its effectiveness. But in recent days, the firm has found itself under increased scrutiny from lawmakers, regulators and prosecutors in the United States and Britain following reports in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the Facebook data, and that it still had a copy of the information.”
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mddshubby2005 about 6 years ago
Please send your complaint to GoComics, not the comments section.
Satchel,Koko,LDL,Kenny about 6 years ago
JAH1492 . This was informative and factual. It’s a poli. ’toon. Let it be.
SteveBenson8 creator about 6 years ago
This is a political cartoon. Please bear in mind that GoComics itself specifically identifies these cartoons in this particular forum under the category of “Political Cartoons“ and posts them here as such.
The purpose of political cartoons is to express the signed, personal political perspectives of their creators.
Readers are invited to come here to express their own personal opinions about the messages conveyed in these political cartoons.
Complainers, such as some seen in this thread, ignorantly demand that all political cartoons be disallowed from appearing in this forum because they mistakenly think this commentary section is a comic-strip forum instead of actually being a political-cartoon forum.
I frequently deal with ctitics suffering from this fundamental blindspot.
This is where political cartoonists step in as elementary school teachers for those who evidence a need for basic education when it comes to the purpose of this specific forum as an arena for publishing and discussing political cartoons.
Are we clear on this? :-)
Mr. Blawt about 6 years ago
How else are republicans going to win elections? If they can’t gerrymander, they will have to steal, if they can’t steal, they’ll have to work with Russia again.