Fifty million people on Facebook had their identities harvested for political purposes. We find out how a professor in Britain was able to convince Facebook to let him run an experiment on its users without their knowledge, and how that information winded up at a company called Cambridge Analytica -- run by Steve Bannon and funded by conservative Robert Mercer.
Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Trump campaign
Credits
Guest:
- April Glaser - senior research fellow at Harvard University - @aprilaser