<story><title>Cambridge Analytica were the tip of the iceberg</title><url>https://graphcommons.com/stories/3f057b42-09fb-49af-aab4-f5243e48734d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rhizome</author><text>This is kind of a thin post linking to someone&amp;#x27;s larger project&amp;#x2F;company, but it does almost touch on something of substance, that there&amp;#x27;s (what I call) a &amp;quot;Blackwater Problem&amp;quot; with statistical-targeting companies. This is when one company out of many (manymany) emerges as the whipping boy for a problematic (if not inherently criminal) industry or profession. We see the same kinds of company name shuffling, same maintenance of primary leadership, who is essentially that industry&amp;#x27;s lobbyist over the long term.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cambridge Analytica were the tip of the iceberg</title><url>https://graphcommons.com/stories/3f057b42-09fb-49af-aab4-f5243e48734d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>harikb</author><text>Nice way to show the content. Really brings home the fact that nothing much has changed for 2020, only getting worse.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; When CA was closed down many employees simply moved to new companies doing the exact same thing. One of the more well known of these is Emerdata, not just sharing some of the same workers from CA but also funded by the same family.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Not everyone is aware, but CA was just a small part of a parent organisation called SCL. Pretty much all of the companies shown (in blue) on the left are&amp;#x2F;were part of this group.</text></comment>