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Very interesting interview/discussion from with Siva Vaidhyanathan (okay, I didn't know his name, either), who wrote "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.” There's both video and transcript.
A Threat to Global Democracy: How Facebook and Surveillance Capitalism Empower Authoritarianism
Look, Cambridge Analytica was a great story, right? It finally brought to public attention the fact that for more than five years Facebook had encouraged application developers to get maximal access to Facebook data, to personal data and activity, not just from the people who volunteered to be watched by these app developers, but all of their friends—right?—which nobody really understood except Facebook itself and the application developers. So, thousands of application developers got almost full access to millions of Facebook users for five years. This was basic Facebook policy... And the fact is, the Trump campaign, the Ted Cruz campaign, and, before that, the Duterte campaign in the Philippines, the Modi campaign in India, they all used Facebook itself to target voters, either to persuade them to vote or dissuade them from voting.