Twitter sold information to a company related to Cambridge Analytica


Twitter sold information to a company related to Cambridge Analytica



It is the company that unleashed the Facebook scandal last March



    If the past months of March and April, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook were the most united words on the Net, it seems that this May will be added a new social network: Twitter.

This is revealed by the US media Bloomberg, which states that Twitter sold data from its social network to Aleksandr Kogan, a researcher allied with Cambridge Analytica. Kogan's company had access to Twitter information in 2015.

     Through Global Science Research, Aleksandr Kogan had one day access to the API of the platform, which allowed him to obtain information from Twitter users between December 2014 and April 2015. The data obtained include tweets, profile photos, Usernames, location information and photographs.

Faced with these facts, Twitter stated that it had prohibited both the Kogan company and Cambridge Analytica from buying data and publishing advertisements on its platform.

Global Science Research, which launched an application that offered Facebook users predictions about their personality in exchange for accessing their personal data. Global Science Research compared the results of those surveys with the likes of Facebook users and their friends, which allowed them to access many more users than those who used the application. All the information obtained was subsequently delivered to Cambridge Analytica, although, as mentioned in the aforementioned medium, the purposes are not known.

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