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Today, Explained

Cambridge Analytica

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted the social media giant “made mistakes” in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and vowed to fix them. The UK-based company improperly acquired the data of some 50 million Facebook users, and revealed how easily our info can be sold to third parties without our knowledge. Recode’s Kurt Wagner explains, then ProPublica’s Julia Angwin talks about the endgame: brainwashing the masses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0

My name is Kurt Wagner. I'm senior editor covering social media for recode.

0:39.0

So I'm on an iPhone. So I'm opening up a Facebook app. I'm clicking the little

0:44.0

menu button in the lower right and I hit Privacy Shortcuts.

0:47.2

Now I'm scrolling and I'm going to click on Privacy Checkup.

0:53.0

So the first page I'm seeing is it's reminding me who sees my posts when I

0:58.0

when I share them. For me, I have it set to public. So that means that anyone

1:02.4

basically on Facebook can come see my next post. I am okay with that given what I do for a living,

1:06.4

but people might want to change that to friends only.

1:10.1

If I hit Next, it's going to show all of the personal data that I've uploaded.

1:14.6

It looks like I have three emails in here. A phone number, a birthday, where I was born.

1:19.6

My fiance's name, this is kind of a lot of stuff.

1:24.0

And then if I go to the next page, it says here are apps you've used Facebook to log into.

1:29.2

I have about probably 20 on here. Yelp. Spotify, Venmo, Pinterest, a lift, Uber, Bitmoji.

1:37.5

You go hard on Bitmoji? Yeah, I go hard on Bitmoji, right? So I want to maintain that connection.

1:41.9

Let's pretend I didn't. I could just click and sever that tie, basically, which would stop

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