Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Trump campaign
Fifty million people on Facebook had their identities harvested for political purposes.
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.