Everyones attacking Facebook for the way Cambridge Analytica used user data. Cambridge Analytica served the Trump campaign. That explains a lot of the protest.
Liberals are upset. Conservatives should be too. Its a bipartisan problem. President Obamas reelection team did the same thing with Facebook data four years earlier. In fact they extracted almost five times as much personal data with a cleverly designed app.
On top of that an eye-popping 44 percent of the U.S. population accesses news on Facebook. Between the way partisan groups can use the data to sway voters and the way Facebook itself can sway them what happens on Facebook can affect American elections.
And it gets worse. It affects many other parts of our lives as well. Facebook is constantly collecting data about us and our friends. It then sells the data to advertisers. Facebook and Google share a powerful duopoly on online advertising. Opting out doesnt necessarily protect people. Facebook admits it has tracked people who werent users. It has immense control over what we see which affects our behavior.
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Everyones attacking Facebook for the way Cambridge Analytica used user data. Cambridge Analytica served the Trump campaign. That explains a lot of the protest.
Liberals are upset. Conservatives should be too. Its a bipartisan problem. President Obamas reelection team did the same thing with Facebook data four years earlier. In fact they extracted almost five times as much personal data with a cleverly designed app.
On top of that an eye-popping 44 percent of the U.S. population accesses news on Facebook. Between the way partisan groups can use the data to sway voters and the way Facebook itself can sway them what happens on Facebook can affect American elections.
And it gets worse. It affects many other parts of our lives as well. Facebook is constantly collecting data about us and our friends. It then sells the data to advertisers. Facebook and Google share a powerful duopoly on online advertising. Opting out doesnt necessarily protect people. Facebook admits it has tracked people who werent users. It has immense control over what we see which affects our behavior.
Read the rest of the article at The Stream