Cambridge Analytica has refuted Facebook’s claim that it had access to 87 million records from The Social Network™.
“Today Facebook reported that information for up to 87 million people may have been improperly obtained by research company GSR,” reads a In a Cambridge Analytica statement. “Cambridge Analytica licensed data for no more than 30 million people from GSR, as is clearly stated in our contract with the research company. We did not receive more data than this.”
The statement also says: “We did not use any GSR data in the work we did in the 2016 US presidential election.” Which rather pours cold water on the “Cambridge Analytica is wot won it for Trump” theory behind much of the interest in…
