Conspiracy theories tagged "Facebook."
3 articles
Confirmed
Cambridge Analytica — Facebook Data Weaponized for Elections
Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 87 million Facebook profiles without consent and used psychographic profiling to micro-target voters for Brexit and Trump — confirmed by whistleblower Christopher Wylie.
2014 · United Kingdom · Cambridge Analytica, SCL Group, Steve Bannon
Unresolved
Facebook / Meta Secretly Listening Through Microphone
Widespread belief that Facebook's app secretly activates users' microphones to eavesdrop on conversations for ad targeting — consistently denied by Meta but perceived as plausible given behavioral ad data.
2016 · United States · Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Facebook
Unresolved
Silicon Valley Predictive Programming / Social Engineering
Claims that Big Tech uses data harvesting and algorithmic prediction to manipulate public behavior at scale. From Facebook experiments to Cambridge Analytica, the evidence examined.
2010 · United States · Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel