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![c_smartrex Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1324511268204617733.png) csmartrex 💚 [@c_smartrex](/creator/twitter/c_smartrex) on x 1527 followers
Created: 2025-07-18 18:38:48 UTC

How XX Million People Got Played by a Facebook Quiz, let me tell you a short story…

Back in the mid-2010s, a company called Cambridge Analytica pulled one of the wildest data heists and most people didn’t even realize it.

They built a basic “personality quiz” on Facebook. Nothing big. 

But once you took it…

A thread 🧵 

 #Threadcontest #Streamdatax

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XXXXX engagements

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