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SpicyLemonZest
on Oct 24, 2020
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Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project in...
Cambridge Analytica got most of their data from a university researcher Aleksandr Kogan, who promised Facebook the data was being used only for academic research but was secretly handing it over to Cambridge Analytica.
finnthehuman
on Oct 24, 2020
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So... the problem with university research is that frauds who claim to be university research aren't university research?
disgruntledphd2
on Oct 24, 2020
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He wasn't a fraud at the time, he was a postdoc at Cambridge (which is a pretty well-respected university).
He gave the data to Cambridge Analytica without permission, though.
SpicyLemonZest
on Oct 24, 2020
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Sorry, I don't follow. If you're thinking I was trying to communicate some hidden message with my comment, rest assured I was not.
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