Thursday, April 05, 2018

Facebook reveals that as many as 87 million people may have had their data stolen by Cambridge Analytica.

Seriously, what in the hell would make you trust me?
Courtesy of the New York Times:  

Facebook on Wednesday said that the data of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with a political consulting firm connected to President Trump during the 2016 election — a figure far higher than the estimate of 50 million that had been widely cited since the leak was reported last month.

Facebook had not previously disclosed how many accounts had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, the firm connected to the Trump campaign. It has also been reluctant to disclose how it was used by Russian-backed actors to influence the 2016 presidential election. 

Among Facebook’s acknowledgments on Wednesday was the disclosure of a vulnerability in its search and account recovery functions that it said could have exposed “most” of its 2 billion users to having their public profile information harvested.

So to be clear this 87 million number STILL may not prove accurate, as essentially every Facebook user's information could have been "harvested," which sounds like a fancy word for "stolen."

So now Zuckerberg is claiming that Facebook will now provide the tools for users to better control who accesses their information, but keep in mind that they have known about this for years and only started to give a shit when journalists reported on the multiple breaches.


At least least Tom Anderson of MySpace pretended to be our friend.

60 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:08 AM

    Are you going to do a post on Sailor's broken arm?

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    1. Anonymous11:28 AM

      Hope NOt. A active section is already going strong in the thread S.D. regarding rump's genitalia @4:42pm.

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    2. Anonymous1:24 PM

      Signs: Unexplained burns, bruises, black eyes, or other injuries.


      TEXAS WANTS REPORTS ON UNEXPLAINED INJURIES.


      April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month! #CAPMonth
      https://www.dfps.state.tx.us/About_DFPS/News/press_releases/2018-03-28_april_is_child_abuse_prevention_month.pdf


      Child Fatality Annual Report
      https://www.dfps.state.tx.us/About_DFPS/Reports_and_Presentations/PEI/documents/2018/2018-03-01-Child_Fatality_Annual_Report-FY2017.pdf


      Texas also cautions homeowners with pools and children. Has anyone checked to see if the pool Dakota installed is safe and properly fenced?


      Bristol stopped posing inside or in the back. She now poses in the front drive area.

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    3. Anonymous1:26 PM

      Are you going to do a post on your broken life, embarrassingly reduced to internet stalking people you don't know and their kids?

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    4. Anonymous3:44 PM

      No one seems to care about her FAS so why be concerned about a fractured limb? Par for the course for a kid like that, clumsy and accident-prone is the least of her worries in this life she was given by her alcoholic mother.

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    5. Anonymous3:49 PM

      rump's genitalia and some toddlers arm? What's the deal? Each is unique and deserving on their own.

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    6. Anonymous4:01 PM

      11:28 AM Is for the neighbors in Texas. There is nothing worse than to have a child drown in your neighborhood. Any other death or harm is also awful. Fencing a pool is something that is relative easy to do to keep the little ones safe. It is also something simple to check out.

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    7. Anonymous4:25 PM

      3:44

      The only people who can help a FAS child with parents that neglect her is Child Protection. It doesn't matter what comments say. If there is an issue, the right agency needs to look into it before they can see to it that a child has help.

      With the Palins, keep in mind Trig. He could have had a better life and been able to eat and not poo his pants had Alaska's child protection been functioning. I am sure people did try and get him the attention he needed. Sarah and Todd were able to neglect him due to how the state and child protection is run in Alaska.

      I don't know how it is in Texas. I hope for the best for the children. It is worth trying to keep the state and protection agents aware. They can look into doctor reports and see if there are possible cover ups.

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    8. Anonymous5:41 PM

      I don't know enough about FAS to ad that to what I believe is pertinent for the Texas authorities to probe. Anyone with information and concerns can do something by informing authorities.


      Because nothing happens right away does not mean nothing is being done. Meyer and Palin could be on the state's radar already or the cover ups are more like when in Alaska.


      Neither family does anything when children are abused, remember all Track did and the years of cover ups. Dakota knew about the crimes towards women and children. He did nothing. He was complicit in the family crimes toward the abused. He was in the family that enabled Track. If he is also an abuser it makes sense he would cover for the Palins and expect them to cover for him.
      These abuse/neglect situations can take years before they hit the fan. Down the road, if Tripp has a bad time at school and acts up. That could be the report that triggers things and all the accumlated incidents, doctor visits and all would become part of the bigger matter. Don't give up just because you don't know what the authorities know or what they are doing.


      Do something about your sincere concerns. Never give up.

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    9. Anonymous6:11 PM

      She could have a calcium deficiency since they eat crap and don't drink milk.

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    10. Anonymous7:50 PM

      Depending on your particular concerns you can either call the Hot Line or use the website.



      Malnourishment is absolutely neglect. Bristol may give her vitamins thinking that will make up for bad food. She possibly gets some dairy with ice cream and progressed boxed mac and cheese. When she was on the bottle she may have had Enfamil type drink.
      https://www.txabusehotline.org/Login/Default.aspx


      It is impossible to know precisely what is wrong. She really needs professionals to explore all the concerns. It is tragic that children, from what can appear to some to be a normal middle or upper middle class family, can actually be suffering from malnutrition.
      Which is thought of as a 3rd world problem.


      "If undernutrition occurs during pregnancy, or before two years of age, it may result in permanent problems with physical and mental development."
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnutrition

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    11. Anonymous11:27 PM

      Concern trolls are concerned. Shame on you daft cows speculating harm on a little kid just because her parents suck bollocks.

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  2. Anonymous11:22 AM

    And your all surprised? I am not.

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  3. Anonymous11:30 AM

    It was just a matter of time before some evil souls took what was a fun thing and turned it sour. Assholes seem to abound on this earth.
    I like fb. It's fun. Friends you didn't know you had come out of the woodworks. Relatives say they love and respect you to get likes from their friends. You get to see your' former highschool classmates be fat and old with a secret glee. It's like we live in one big village. Nothing is secret. But when Russia uses this against us, that's not a good thing. We knew it would eventually happen too right? But I really hate twitter because everytime Trump gets a brain fart we have to hear about it. And congress. Where are they? What have they been up to? And please don't post about Sailor's broken arm. Poor kid. My kid broke her arm at five jumping on a bed when her cousin swept her off her feet and she tried to break her fall and I heard crack. It was horrors.

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    1. Anonymous3:47 PM

      No one in my immediate family has ever been on facebook, we have photo sharing drop boxes and email or call on a regular basis. I'd be horrified if anyone from my high school or college tried to stay in touch!

      Friendships tend to be proximity-based in my life and once I move on I never even think about those folks I used to hang out with. Us misanthropes find facebook connectivity horrifying!

      Heard Tripp got rough with Sailor and her disease also gives her weak bones so no surprise at the broken arm. Mama should have reminded Tripp to be more careful with his special sister.

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    2. Anonymous4:32 PM

      DuhKota makes a scene out of what an engaged, protective, caring father he is. He does his little diddies about his girls, caring so much about them, you know?

      Yes, we had a few rough scraps. With the first born any little thing was monumental for us. It would be the topic of communications.


      DuhKota is like that. That's why I don't get his silent reaction. As if it did not happen to his first born. It says alot about Duhkota and the arm incident.

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  4. Anonymous11:34 AM

    "“mo$t” of ~ITs 2 BILLION USer$" big bad reap
    '87 million users may have been improperly shared with a political consulting firm connected to President Trump during the 2016 election —
    a figure far higher than the estimate of 50 million"

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  5. Anonymous11:36 AM

    And don't forget, they took your information that included all your contacts, friends, family, business, shopping, banking, etc. And for the last few years some people have been further hacked, bribed, attacked and damaged by this little invasion and rigging of our elections. They looked for Hillary supporters, donations to democrats, your opinions, comments, etc. Zuckerberg and anal Cambridge mercer and bannon committed crime after crime.

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    1. Anonymous5:05 PM

      Hump them thar Bibles baby!

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  6. Anonymous11:44 AM

    "At least least Tom Anderson of MySpace pretended to be our friend."

    True, true.

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  7. Anonymous11:51 AM

    Read a piece in the New York times about Lisa Murkowski. In it she was quoted as having said "after all I am a Republican." and that reminded me of the scorpion story. You know where the scorpion talked the reluctant turtle across the water promising not to sting him, and then promptly stung him. And when the befuddled and dying turtle asked the scorpion why, the scorpion replied, "because I am a scorpion. This is Lisa Murkowski. And she did nothing like the article said she did. If she did it was a fluke. No one in the so called Republican party has stood up to their Fuhrer.

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  8. Anonymous12:01 PM

    O/T NYT "Is Putin a CIA agent"?

    Looks like NYT is Mad Magazine!

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  9. Anonymous12:16 PM

    First, Sailor's broken arm.
    And now, this.

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    1. Anonymous1:26 PM

      It's not the broken arm. It's the cover up.

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  10. Anonymous12:18 PM

    I’m so glad I never signed up for Facebook. Hope they go out of business and Zuckerbugger sent to prison for treason.

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    1. Anonymous1:24 PM

      lol. What is it with you guys and 'treason' everything? Zuckerberg is a lucky little twerp nerd that won the internet lottery by allowing stupid people to use his platform to stupidly post every moment of their lives on. But this constant 'treason' for everyone is equally as stupid.

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    2. Anonymous3:23 PM

      @ 1:24

      Sucks to be Zuck. He is a traitor and he is going to prison. Unfortunately for him, #FVEY has the receipts.

      GeorgiaPeach

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    3. Anonymous3:48 PM

      1:24pm

      These folks don't understand treason anymore than they understand the process of impeachment. They just like to throw around those words and look stupid.

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    4. Anonymous4:17 PM

      @ 3:48

      Oh, I do understand treason. Taking money from a foreign national for elections is treason. And Mueller has Trump, and much of the GOP, dead to rights on that.

      And, Zuck is fucked.

      https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored-data-sharing-agreement-with-hospitals.html

      GeorgiaPeach

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    5. Anonymous5:09 PM

      Barstool @124 needs a J O B.

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  11. Anonymous12:18 PM

    Holy mother of f*ck! The Dotard is now *completely* off the RAILS! And they are applauding him at this roundtable meeting where he's ranting incoherently and irresponsibly! Did they have to sign some form beforehand to agree to anything he says, no matter how nonsensical? What the feck is going ON?!?

    '“They are doing it for that reason,” he remarked. “Because they’re not going to be voting with us for the most part. A lot of them aren’t going to be voting. A lot of times it doesn’t matter because in many places, like California, the same person votes many times. You probably heard about that.”

    “They always like to say, oh, that’s a conspiracy theory,” Trump said with a mocking tone. “Not a conspiracy theory, folks. Millions and millions of people [vote illegally]. And it’s very hard because the state guards their records.”'

    ****25TH THE MUTHAFUQUA!!!!****

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/not-conspiracy-theory-trump-rabidly-claims-millions-millions-people-voted-illegally-california/

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    1. Anonymous1:16 PM

      Why don't they ask him, where is his proof.

      He undermines our democracy on a daily basis, if this isn't a reason for impeachment I don't know what is.

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    2. Anonymous3:45 PM

      MORE MORE MORE
      "Trump threatens to slap $100 billion in additional tariffs on China"

      http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/05/news/trump-tariff-china-trade-war/index.html

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrfE9I8_hs

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  12. Anonymous12:20 PM

    Just keep getting more and more validation on my decision to never sign up for Facebook. Thank you Zuckerberg. There was just something about him that rubbed me the wrong way and I did not want to contribute to his wealth.

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    1. Anonymous11:16 PM

      He totally rubs the wrong way. Plus something's wrong with his face. Terribly wrong. He's part albino, and likely has a weird tongue. His wife looks like she doesn't give oral that often. Maybe at Hanukkah though.

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  13. Anonymous12:24 PM

    Please. Check the DailyMail.

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    1. Anonymous12:50 PM

      Y this>
      "EXCLUSIVE: YouTube shooter was all about 'peace' and did not have mental health problems, says Nasim Aghdam's father who insists his daughter only meant to kill herself"

      Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5583371/Father-YouTube-shooter-insists-daughter-did-not-mental-problems.html#ixzz5Bpj2p5xS
      Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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    2. Anonymous1:08 PM

      Some are allegedly saying:
      "She was an addict. A pissed off millennial that wanted to be famous, and utube became enemy #1 when they "stepped in her way".
      Did u see her videos? She was an attention seeking future (or current??) hooker.
      Her dad likely raped her too."

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    3. Anonymous2:46 PM

      The big news is Sailor Palin and the 'Poo Poo' Bristol posted. She actually laughed!! It was hilarious!! Ha Ha Ho Ho.... LOL Why she is the celebrity of the century.... The 'POO POO' highlights are so newsy.

      Why the Palins love the Daily Mail.. I betcha they will even read that shit and wallow in every word.

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  14. Anonymous1:13 PM

    Gross
    ============================
    The Real Reason Trump Won't Be Invited To The Royal Wedding
    ..........Donald Trump spoke to Howard Stern in the 1990's about Princess Diana like she was his personal sex object. This was AFTER she was killed in a tragic automobile accident...............

    https://crooksandliars.com/2018/04/real-reason-trump-wont-be-invited-royal

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    1. Anonymous2:47 PM

      What about Melania and Barron?

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    2. Anonymous3:06 PM

      "As he did with many famous women, Trump proceeded to evaluate Diana's appearance in oddly specific ways. Although he allowed that "she had times when she didn't look great" he deemed her "supermodel beautiful." "She had the height. . . she had magnificent skin,""

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    3. Anonymous11:19 PM

      Yes Barron should at least go to the wedding. There should be people there to remind him to take his medication.

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  15. Randall1:53 PM

    I probably shouldn't be writing this right now because I'm crabby at the moment, but...
    What the fuck did you expect?
    People VOLUNTARILY put all their data online for all the world to access - and then get upset when "the bad guys" access it?
    WTF?

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    1. Anonymous4:37 PM

      I am a crank and I will say that is probably why I was never doing Facebook. I could not trust it. Plus so much of it was so stupid. I know there are some good uses for it. Has it all been lost?

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  16. Anonymous2:05 PM

    "House Intelligence Committee’s final interview in their soon-to-be-closed Russia investigation, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski reportedly shouted a curse word at Democrats on the panel while refusing to answer her question.
    FUCK!
    CNN reported Thursday that Lewandowski shouted he wouldn’t answer Democrats’ “f*cking” question when they pressed him on a topic he would not discuss. It was his second time before the panel after he agreed in March to return for questioning after he refused to answer any questions about events that occurred after he left the campaign in June of 2016."<FUCKER!

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/im-not-answering-fcking-question-lewandoswki-loses-house-intel-dems-last-russia-interview/

    This story is developing …

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  17. Anonymous3:00 PM

    OT: "on Wednesday, stole a shotgun and left behind a 20-page manifesto where he threatened to kill people in San Francisco and any law enforcement members."They also found a binder with a 20-page manifesto on their kitchen table in which Hamilton says that he hates San Francisco police."

    https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Jose-Family-Comes-Home-to-Find-Estranged-Son-Stole-Their-Shotgun-Left-Manifesto-to-Attack-SF-478892723.html

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  18. Anonymous3:14 PM

    Fuck Zuck.

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  19. Anonymous3:58 PM

    "WikiLeaks has been caught covering for Russia at least twice before, both in the summer of 2016, when it declined to publish a huge cache of Russian government data, and in its 2012 exclusion, in its published “Syria Files,” of a $2.4 billion transaction from the Central Bank of Syria to the VTB Bank in Russia.
    These Messages Show Julian Assange Talked About Seeking Hacked Files From Guccifer 2.0
    DMs tie Assange to a Russia-linked hacker — and raise new questions about his Seth Rich conspiracy theory.""Assange chose, in television interviews both immediately before and after his conversation with Best, to not publicly bring up Guccifer 2.0, and instead to tease the conspiracy theory that Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer whose murder spawned conspiracy theories, could be the source for his leaks."
    "WikiLeaks had mentioned Guccifer 2.0 a single time before, tweeting in June 2016 — five weeks before it released its first dump of Democratic National Committee emails — that the persona had claimed it gave WikiLeaks DNC emails."
    "Daily Beast reported that either Twitter or WordPress noticed at least once that someone logged into the Guccifer 2.0 account without turning on a VPN, revealing an IP address belonging to the GRU in Moscow.

    The files that Guccifer 2.0 published on its WordPress account would later appear in both of WikiLeaks's major drops during the 2016 election: "

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/kevincollier/assange-seth-rich-lies-guccifer-wikileaks-hannity?utm_term=.dpD1x4A0D#.ty47vpx1N

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  20. Not me. Never did Facebook.

    Or Twitter.

    I see Zuckerberg has finally stepped up. I guess when his stock started to sink he decided to make an appearance and try to apologize himself out of the mess.

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    1. Anonymous7:00 PM

      It is lean In Sandberg who is saying 3 years tp fix it... fuck that...

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    2. Anonymous7:37 AM

      "NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook’s No. 2 executive says the company should have conducted an audit after learning that a political consultancy improperly accessed user data nearly three years ago.

      Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told NBC’s “Today” show that at the time, Facebook received legal assurances that Cambridge Analytica had deleted the improperly obtained information.

      “What we didn’t do is the next step of an audit and we’re trying to that now,” she said.

      The audit of Cambridge Analytica is on hold, in deference to a U.K. investigation. But Facebook has been conducting a broader review of its own practices and how other third-party apps use data.

      The company is facing a global backlash over the improper data-sharing scandal. Hearings over the issue are scheduled in the U.S., and the European Union is considering what actions to take against the company.

      Sandberg gave several interviews this week as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before Congress next week. The company is also facing an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission in what’s become its worst privacy crisis in its 14-year history.

      It started with revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining firm, improperly accessed the private information of tens of millions of users to try to influence elections around the world. Over the past three weeks the scandal continued to spiral. For one, Facebook executives took nearly five days to respond to the Cambridge Analytica reports.

      Then, some users who logged in to Facebook through Android devices discovered that Facebook had been collecting information about phone calls they made and text messages they sent. Facebook also acknowledged this week that nearly all of its 2.2 billion users may have had their public data scraped by “malicious actors” it did not name." TPM

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  21. Anonymous6:15 PM

    What makes me angry are businesses using facebook and you need an account to get coupons or deals.

    We shall see if that changes

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    1. Anonymous8:36 PM

      Any business that makes that their only platform isn't worth doing business with.

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    2. Anonymous5:59 AM

      Just as the big boys wouldn't waste their ad dollars on 13-17 year olds—too young to buy a car—prior to 2014, they will cut off those dollars to FB because the juicy target-market has left the building (in droves).

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  22. Anonymous5:54 AM

    It's official: MOST of FB's 2 billion users accounts have been scraped! The company quietly updated their statement when they felt no one was paying attention.

    FB also suspended Christopher Wylie's —the whistleblower— account.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/facebook-suspend-account-whistleblower-exposed-cambridge-analytica/

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    1. Anonymous7:20 AM

      TRUE>"On 4 April 2018, Facebook announced that as many as 87 million users — 37 million more than originally reported — had data from their profiles improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica. Later in the afternoon, the social media giant quietly amended that number to “MOST” of its 2 BILLION users."

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  23. Anonymous7:16 AM

    FYI

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/1-5-gun-owners-take-drugs-mental-illness/

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  24. Anonymous1:39 PM

    Well, well... ain't it always about they money:

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/04/facebook-gave-most-contributions-house-committee-question-zuckerberg-also-got-most-contributions-fac/486313002/

    An excerpt:
    — A Facebook spokesman responded to questions about the contributions by pointing to an April 2017 statement the company issued to employees about "political engagement." It said it is important for the company to "develop relationships with elected officials ... who share our vision of an open Internet."

    The statement described the company's PAC and said decisions about which candidates get support are based on whether their policy positions are consistent with the company's "and whether the candidate holds a key committee or leadership position."

    A spokesman for Democrats on the House committee, C.J. Young, said he could not discuss campaign contributions. —

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