Cambridge Analytica, Part I (with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton)
SNAFU with Ed Helms
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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are High-Tech Savants. The co-hosts of the Hard Fork Podcast were on the front lines of the Facebook Data Scandal, and today they help Ed break down just how much of your data (yes, you dear listener!) was leaked and misused for political purposes. Find out what laws Cambridge Analytica broke in today's tech-heavy SNAFU.
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| 0:00.0 | in some very real ways cambridge analytica changed my life casey is the only person in america |
| 0:05.8 | who benefited from the cambridge analytical scandal he's like this was great for me |
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| 0:56.5 | Welcome to Snap-Fu, the podcast about history's greatest screw-ups. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm your host, Ed Helms. |
| 1:02.0 | And each episode, as you know, I cover an enormous screw-up from history to see what we can |
| 1:08.4 | learn from humanity's biggest mistakes. |
| 1:11.6 | My guests today are truly two of like just the most awesome people. |
| 1:18.0 | Truly, I am so excited. |
| 1:19.4 | We have Kevin Ruse, who is an award-winning tech columnist for the New York Times, |
| 1:24.4 | frequently covering Silicon Valley, social media, and tech developments. |
| 1:28.3 | He's also the author of several books, including the AGI Chronicles, the inside story of |
| 1:34.7 | the race to create an artificial superintelligence releasing later this year. Welcome, Kevin Ruse. |
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