First of all, thanks to those who have been following and blogging about this Facebook mess. 50,000,000 people’s individual data grabbed, measured, and used as fodder in a underhanded, illegal, and quite properly treasonous campaign to get Trump erected to the highest office on this flat earth.
Now that some of suspicions of more than a few here have been confirmed, I suspect that no one suspected the depth and breath of Cambridge Analytica’s crimes and unethical deeds. The story goes so much further than what even the most cynical may have suspected.
That raises more than one question. I have followed what has been happening in Europe politics, and found myself shocked how closely their fascist groups have tried to emulate Gtrump and take over their national governments. I have no doubts that CA was to blame in at least some of that.
But, what of Brexit? This mind-boggling decision to rip apart a functioning, peace-keeping (good economic ties almost always prevent war. bad ones create them.) and extraordinarily useful treaty had to have outside influence. I wonder just how much CA was involved in swaying voters with disinformation about Brexit. I would bet it was a lot. But, who was the client? Russia? The Mercers?