Self-described whistleblower suspended by Facebook after Cambridge Analytica reports [View all]

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, claims Facebook suspended him for whistleblowing.

Wylie's claim comes after Cambridge Analytica, the data firm used by the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, was exposed for having illegally harvested the Facebook data of millions of people.

On Sunday, Wylie shared a screenshot of an “account disabled” message that he said came from Facebook. He said the company suspended him for revealing something that they had already known for two years.

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Cambridge Analytica was suspended by Facebook on Friday for not fully deleting data it obtained from Aleksandr Kogan, a University of Cambridge professor. Kogan had gathered the data via an app he had created, which used a Facebook login.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/379022-self-described-whistleblower-suspended-by-facebook-after-cambridge