Cadwalladr, Carole

The Guardian (or its subsidiary newspaper The Observer) tech reporter, 2006 – present.

No IT education. Only a bachelor's in journalism from a foreign college. See The Most Important IT Credential: An IT Education in Principles of IT Incompetence.

Foreigner: British. Works for the same British newspaper, The Guardian, that aided and abetted Edward Snowden in hacking the NSA and CIA, before Snowden fled to Russia to avoid execution for treason in the U.S.

From IT Reporting: Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel with a Fake Facebook Data Breach:

The reference link was broken (because it started with https://https://), which is typical for Wikipedia because Wikipedia contributor/editors can't be bothered to check their work. However, the article could be found by googling the telling headline, "Another huge data breach, another stony silence from Facebook". It was indeed in The Guardian, which is a British newspaper, and was written by Carole Cadwalladr [sic], who is an IT incompetent one-trick pony British reporter with a failing career.

Carole Cadwalladr is IT incompetent because she has no IT education (see The Most Important IT Credential: An IT Education in Principles of IT Incompetence); she only has a bachelor's in journalism. And her claim that the Facebook data must be from a recent data breach because it only recently appeared is just stupid. Hackers don't release the data they've stolen until they are done using it, years later, if ever. To do so would make the data worthless. Hackers don't even want anyone to know there has been a data breach; see HealthCare.gov Hacked.

Carole Cadwalladr made her pathetic career covering the so-called "Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal", which is the "Another huge data breach" she is referring to in her headline. At the time this story was sensationalized (2018), two years after the incident was disclosed (2016), even the liberal media was not brazen enough to call it a "data breach", only a "data scandal". Now though, while Cadwalladr is trying to restart her failing career, she is calling it, and this latest incident, "data breaches".

This is not the first time a "journalist" has used the British newspaper The Guardian to try to restart a failing career. Glenn Greenwald was working for The Guardian when he and they aided and abetted Edward Snowden in hacking the NSA and CIA, before Snowden fled to Russia to avoid execution for treason in the U.S. The Guardian sold a lot of newspapers from Greenwald's stories about this and Greenwald wrote a best-selling book.

Brit Carole Cadwalladr was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the "Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal", even though Pulitzer rules specify it is only for U.S. writers. Nowadays it is only awarded to extremely politically correct writers, but Cadwalladr easily met that criterion — she had done an extensive series of articles about what she termed the "right-wing fake news ecosystem".

The "Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal" was just more politically-motivated fake news. It was just another "scraping" story (see ahead) that would have been ignored by the liberal media except that President Trump and Senator Ted Cruz, both hated by the liberal media, had used for their 2016 campaigns the data analysis services of Cambridge Analytica, which had used data made available by, not stolen from, Facebook, specifically several hundred thousand willing Facebook users.

As explained in Information Technology (IT) Age v. Information Age, I expected that, as would be typical, the Wikipedia entry had been added by Carole Cadwalladr or someone else at The Guardian, to promote themselves, in violation of Wikipedia's rules, but which are waived for the liberal media. In fact, Cadwalladr is friends with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.