Just as with other recent large -
scale data manipulations, from the recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and spread of fake news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work.
Not exact matches
If that is the case, the hockey - stick saga surely shows that there is
manipulation of
data, on a grand
scale, to support AGW, which was later shown to have been false.
Within the
data research community, we have known for years that such
manipulation of
data was possible through grand
scale harvesting of social media
data.