Another story tonight on how the Cambridge Analytica mess went to Canada as well.

https:// www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-trudeaus-liberals-awarded-a-100000-contract-in-2016-to-christopher/

Liberals’ $100,000 contract with Christopher Wylie one of several interactions between party, researcher

BILL CURRY AND COLIN FREEZE

OTTAWA AND TORONTO

PUBLISHED MARCH 21, 2018

UPDATED 1 HOUR AGO

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Research Bureau awarded a $100,000 contract in 2016 to Christopher Wylie, the whistle-blower at the centre of a global controversy over the misuse of data from tens of millions of Facebook users.

The contract for a short-lived pilot project was no one-off: It was among many interactions between Mr. Wylie, the data-driven political entrepreneur, and the federal Liberal Party stretching back nearly a decade.

See also >>751367 (last bread) for how a more Trudeau-friendly paper is spinning it.

>>751566

Another one, less on his ties to the Liberal party and more on FB in general.

http:// www.cbc.ca/news/technology/chris-wylie-cambridge-analytica-1.4587258

>Chris Wylie, the Canadian data scientist who revealed information about how Cambridge Analytica gathered data about Facebook users, tells CBC News that he wants to testify in the U.S. and the U.K. about social media's threat to elections and democratic institutions.

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>"It's in the public interest that these issues start to get discussed, and I think that, unfortunately, our legislators and our regulators are playing catch-up to things that have been well-known in the tech sector for ages," he told The National co-anchor Adrienne Arsenault.

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>"I think more broadly they're starting to understand that there's a potential for an existential crisis in Facebook, because people are realizing that you've got a company that sort of has a problem with the fact that its entire business model revolves around the use of personal data," he said.