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Africa: Why Facebook Is the Reason Fake News Is Here to Stay
The Conversation Africa, 4 April 2018
The bitter truth buried in recent headlines about how the political consulting company - Cambridge Analytica - used social media and messaging, primarily Facebook and WhatsApp, to… Read more »
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Africa: Cambridge Analytica v Facebook - a Breach of Trust
Daily Maverick, 3 April 2018
As the world reels from the impact of the recent Cambridge Analytica data privacy breaches, we have each felt this crisis as a body blow right in our digital gut; a point in… Read more »
Why Facebook Is the Reason Fake News Is Here to Stay
The Cambridge Analytica scandal appears to be symptomatic of much deeper challenges that Facebook must confront if it's to become a force for good in the global fight against false narratives.
These hard truths include the fact that Facebook's business model is built upon an inherent conflict of interest. The others are the company's refusal to take responsibility for the power it wields and its inability to come up with a coherent strategy to tackle fake news, writes Stephen Buckley for The Conversation Africa.
InFocus
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Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie has told a British parliamentary committee that his predecessor, Dan Muresan who died in a Kenyan hotel room in 2012, may have ... Read more »
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Former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie says Israeli firm Black Cube hacked into President Muhammadu Buhari's private medical and financial records via his emails. ... Read more »
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Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy specialising in mining and analysing data is accused of interfering in elections in Nigeria and Kenya. Their claims are overstated, the ... Read more »
