Facebook Data Row Makes Waves in Romania

The Facebook data row surrounding British analytics company Cambridge Analytica has made waves in Romania, after a consultant revealed that the company scouted him to secretly work for Romania's ruling Social Democratic Party in its triumphant 2016 election campaign.

Cambridge Analytica is in hot water after after it was revealed that it obtained access to more than 50 million Facebook users' data in 2014.

This was then collected, shared, and stored without users' consent and allegedly used in the 2016 Brexit referendum and the US presidential elections.

Both the British government and the European Union on Tuesday announced investigations into the company's activities.
 
 Meanwhile, a British public relations consultant and writer, Rupert Wolfe Murray, revealed on Facebook on Wednesday that Cambridge Analytica had scouted him in 2016 to work for Romania's Social Democratic Party.

"I saw the Channel 4 report about Cambridge Analytica and they mentioned an East European country where they went in secretly and successfully manipulated an election. No name was given. 'Nobody knew we were there,' said the boss," Murray said on his Facebook account.

"I recognised the boss's name and found some emails from him dating August 2016. He'd offered me a job, but when he told me it was for the ruling party, which went on to win the election, I declined," he added.

Did #CambridgeAnalytics manipulate the 2016 election in #Romania ? In the Channel 4 report they refer to a secret operation at an East European election. They offered me a job in August 2016, a few months before the election...

— Rupert Wolfe Murray (@wolfemurray) March 21, 2018

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