The magnitude of the public outcry and the amount of media attention given to the ordeal has been significant even
in the context of the scope of the incident which is said to have seen Cambridge Analytica harvest
data of some 50 million Facebook users while informing less than one - percent of them of that activity several
years back, then leveraging that information to fight an information war during the 2016
presidential election in the United States, an accusation made by a whistleblower that the firm repeatedly denied.