Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: What just happened?

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: What just happened?

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https://www.recode.net/2018/3/23/17153368/facebook-cambridge-analytica-mark-zuckerberg-lauren-goode-kara-swisher-kurt-wagner-recode-podcast

Public trust in Facebook has taken several beatings in the past 18 months, and the social networking giant was done no favors by the recent revelation that a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica had smuggled millions of users’ data out of the site, exploiting a loophole in Facebook’s platform.

On the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, Recode’s Kurt Wagner explained how that happened and what might happen next, along with The Verge’s Lauren Goode and Recode’s Kara Swisher. The podcast was recorded on Wednesday night, very shortly after Wagner and Swisher finished interviewing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg,