More Than 50 Million Facebook Profiles Were Hacked To Help Trump Gain Votes In Presidential Election; Facebook’s Value Dropped $50 Million and Investors Are Suing; CEO Mark Zuckerberg Finally Breaks His Silence
The same data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election harvested 50 million Facebook profiles of U.S. voters and used them to create a software that predicts and influences who people vote for. The firm called Cambridge Analytica is the owned by billionaire #RobertMercer, and was formally ran by Trump’s key adviser #SteveBannon.
