Questions rained in on Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and its boss, Mark Zuckerberg, including the most insistent – where was he? He set up Cambridge Analytica to work in America, with investment from Robert Mercer. Cambridge Analytica declares bankruptcy, as MPs begin trying to force Zuckerberg to speak to Parliament about the scandal. Because what the Cambridge Analytica story exposed, by accident, from Facebook’s reaction in the months that followed, is the absolute power of the tech giants. Less than a week after we published the Cambridge Analytica story, I had a short, sharp insight into why this might be so: a vivid, painful, firsthand experience of the long reach of the British establishment.

Source: The Guardian December 23, 2018 06:00 UTC