When I was growing up, we learned that the moral cornerstone of the First Amendment — the very essence of it — is that it’s about protecting the speech you don’t like. If the Nazis aren’t allowed t…
, the British consulting firm that was launched in 2013 with backing from Robert Mercer, the billionaire financier of right-wing causes. The company, before its dissolution, claimed to have 5,000 data points on every American voter. In 2016, data gathered by, much of it taken from Facebook, was utilized by the Ted Cruz campaign, and then, after Trump won the Republican nomination, it was funneled into the Trump campaign.
And data-mined. For all the legitimate issues of privacy invasion that are raised by the 2016 election, there does seem to be something weirdly selective about who we choose to demonize. Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and CEO of Facebook, sold data to Cambridge Analytica, which was wrong, but we have made him the whipping boy for a social-media experiment that let the genie of fake news out of the bottle, and now there’s no way to stuff it back in.
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