View source for Seminar 25: Update on the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica story

* Alistair Knott: [[Media:ai-elections-update.pdf | Uses and abuses of AI in election campaigns: Update on the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica story]]
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This is a continuation of the earlier seminar: new material is from p29 onwards. 

== Some relevant articles ==

* Carole Cadwalladr's Observer article breaking the Christopher Wylie story (March 18 2018): [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump 'I made Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool': meet the data war whistleblower]

* WIRED Magazine's information from 'sources close to Cambridge Analytica' (March 3 2018): [https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-50m-facebook-users-data/ Cambridge Analytica took 50M Facebook Users' data - and both companies owe answers]

* Guardian story on Sandy Parakilas's revelations (March 20th 2018) [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-cambridge-analytica-sandy-parakilas 'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine]

* Guardian report about Aleksandr Kogan's response to accusations (March 21st 2018): [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/facebook-row-i-am-being-used-as-scapegoat-says-academic-aleksandr-kogan-cambridge-analytica Analytica Facebook scandal: I am being used as scapegoat - academic who mined data]

* Guardian story about Channel 4 sting on Alexander Nix (March 19th 2018): [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/19/cambridge-analytica-execs-boast-dirty-tricks-honey-traps-elections Cambridge Analytica boasts of dirty tricks to swing elections]