Re: Forgetting something? Maybe a bit of bias?
""The 'what's happened' in this case being the revelation that Facebook had allowed a researcher to harvest the data of around 50 million of its users for use in creating targeted ad campaigns in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential elections for political strategists at Cambridge Analytica.
"There's a risk to our democracy," Stringer said."
Weird. Would he have been complaining had Clinton won the election?
Maybe he didn't notice but democracy ( in it's current form) won anyway.
At every single election, even down to Parish Councils, someone somewhere uses data to target potential voters to sway them to vote their desired way.
Chances are, over 99% of voters vote they way they do regardless of any targetting.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
