How many is too many? There are now more MPs on Twitter than ever before with 88% of honourable Members on the social network, including a full 96% of new MPs. What could possibly go wrong…
Let the leaky DMs commence…
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Quote of the Day
Dr Alexander Kogan, the app developer who originally harvested the Facebook data, said…
“I think what Cambridge Analytica has tried to sell is magic and made claims this is incredibly accurate and it tells you everything there is to tell about you. But I think the reality is it’s not that. If you sit down and you really work through the statistics and you think what does a correlation of point three means, those claims quickly fall apart. And that’s something any person with a statistical background can go and do.”
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