Yesterday a very interesting story broke on the Guardian, about an ex-employee of Cambridge Analytics. He talks about how CA used Facebook to influence voters in the 2016 US Presidential Elections.
I want to know what you guys think of the story, and how can we go forward to protect our data. Of course there are biases everywhere, and it's impossible not to be influenced by the media. However, should we be using decentralised social media platforms like Steemit, instead of sites like Facebook, Youtube etc. that use algorithms to target us with specific content? Is it impossible to prevent something like this happening again?
I'm curious to know what you think, it's such an interesting and important topic!
All the best,
K :)