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Cambridge Analytica, the firm that harvested Facebook data to benefit the Trump campaign, is shutting its doors. In the meantime, the social media giant, which faced privacy concerns following the revelations of the data mining, is expanding its operations into a dating service. Host Dan Loney speaks with Jennifer Golbeck, Director of University of Maryland’s Social Intelligence Lab, and Andrea Matwyshyn, Professor of Law and Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, to discuss these developments on Knowledge at Wharton.

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