Cambridge Analytica: Facebook's Big Data Scandal - Part II (with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton)
SNAFU with Ed Helms
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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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The unraveling web of deceipt continues in the Facebook Data Scandal. Our guests, Kevin Roose and Casey Newton unveil what Mark Zuckerberg had to say for himself in a one-on-one interview. And what were the ramifications in the wake of the 2016 presidential election? Find out in the thrilling conclusion of this week's SNAFU.
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's important to have both virtues and vices. |
| 0:04.0 | All right. |
| 0:04.7 | Oh, elaborate, Kevin. |
| 0:06.1 | What are your favorite vice? |
| 0:07.5 | He's a huge gambler. |
| 0:08.8 | Of course. |
| 0:09.3 | We contain multitudes. This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:21.8 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, Snafu fans, and welcome back to Snafu, the podcast about history's greatest screw-ups. |
| 0:32.7 | I am your host, Ed Helms, and today we are diving into part two of our Cambridge Analytica story, because |
| 0:39.9 | this one was just too insane to try to squeeze into one episode. |
| 0:44.4 | It is just absolutely bonkers. |
| 0:46.3 | And of course, I am still joined for part two by my incredible guests, the brilliant Kevin |
| 0:52.2 | Roos and Casey Newton of the New York Times Tech podcast, Hard Fork. |
| 0:58.0 | They are two of the most delightful, hilarious, brilliant, and insightful people you could ever |
| 1:03.4 | hope to have on a podcast. And they're also incredibly well informed on this particular story |
| 1:08.8 | because they both covered it as reporters when it |
| 1:11.7 | happened back in the mid-2010s. All right, so I highly suggest if you haven't already, go back and |
| 1:19.4 | listen to the previous episode, just so you're fully up to speed. But you know what? You don't |
| 1:23.6 | have to. I'm going to give you a quick little recap here. So we're all in this together. |
| 1:28.7 | All right. |
| 1:29.3 | Previously on Snapoo, a seemingly harmless Facebook quiz turned into a full-blown |
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