Author: Maria Manolova The Cambridge Analytica crisis has exposed the sinister sides of the social network. No easy solution appears to be on the way The article published by the online edition of Capital weekly discusses the risks of harm generated by Facebook against the backdrop of the Analytica scandal. The author presents also interesting…
An interesting article published by the Manager News site which reveals that a year ago Chris Clark – marketing and technology pundit predicted what would happen with data on FB. It points that much of the success of the Trump phenomenon in politics and Brexit is due to the success of Cambridge Analytica, which can…
Prof. Nelly Ognyanova, media lawyer, comments on the recent developments in the ongoing Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal on her blog Media Law discussing the arguments for the establishment of an effective appeal procedure. Prof. Ognyanova draws attention to the fact that Facebook is about to hire 20,000 people to identify hate speech because laws such as…
Author: Borislav Krastev Commenting on the recent Facebook scandal concerning “Analytica” Borislav Krastev provides his explanation of the conditions and factors that have led to it. He claims that we all fall victims of a long pursued advertizing strategy. According to the author the biggest secret of the last 10 years is that all social…
Michal Zlatkovský, the data journalist from the Czech Radio argues that the problem is not Cambridge Analytica – the problem is Facebook. Zlatkovský reminds us that in 2014, Cambridge Analytica offered US users one to two US dollars for filling a personality quiz. About 270,000 people participated for a small reward. The real purpose of…
More Decentralized and Less Personalized Democracy as Protection against the “Fake News”? We present here some comments from a public debate on the topic “Direct Democracy Guards against disinformation and “fake news” held at the University of Geneve on March 23, 2018. Context of this debate was the Helvetic culture of discussion, where alliances are…