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How Facebook is damaging democracy | The Weekly with Wendy Mesley
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April 29, 2019
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8:15Now PlayingFacebook has been under fire since news broke that consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvested data from millions of private Facebook users without permission. That data was accessed by political actors, including the pro-Brexit movement and Donald Trump’s election campaign. Carole Cadwalladr was one of the people who broke that story, and recently accused big tech of breaking democracy during a Ted Talk. Cadwalladr tells Wendy Mesley that Canadians should be concerned about how this could play out in the federal election.
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