NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the suspension of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, over what Facebook says was the imporoper use of collected data. In a nutshell, in 2015 Cambridge Analytica bought data
Edward Snowden Calls Facebook Surveillance Under Guise of Social Media Following Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Edward Snowden criticized Facebook, claiming social media companies were simply “surveillance companies” who engaged in a “successful deception” by rebranding themselves.