Cambridge Analytica’s Trump Brag Turns a Data Scandal Into a Full-Blown Political Liability
Cambridge Analytica’s chief executive spent March 20 loudly claiming his firm ran the Trump campaign’s digital operation, just as the company was being engulfed by revelations about harvested Facebook data and suspended from the platform. The brag did Trump no favors, because it tied the campaign’s victory story directly to a privacy scandal that now looked broader, uglier, and harder to dismiss. The result was not just embarrassment for the firm; it was another reminder that the 2016 Trump operation depended on a toxic mix of data-mining hype and political ruthlessness.
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Cambridge Analytica’s Trump Brag Turns a Data Scandal Into a Full-Blown Political Liability
Cambridge Analytica’s chief executive spent March 20 loudly claiming his firm ran the Trump campaign’s digital operation, just as the company was being engulfed by revelations about harvested Facebook data and suspended from the platform. The brag did Trump no favors, because it tied the campaign’s victory story directly to a privacy scandal that now looked broader, uglier, and harder to dismiss. The result was not just embarrassment for the firm; it was another reminder that the 2016 Trump ope…
Cambridge Analytica’s chief executive spent March 20 loudly claiming his firm ran the Trump campaign’s digital operation, just as the company was being engulfed by revelations about harvested Facebook data and suspended from the platform. The brag did Trump no favors, because it tied the campaign’s victory story directly to a privacy scandal that now looked broader, uglier, and harder to dismiss. The result was not …
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