While I’m not trying to dismiss the headline, this isn’t really news. This has been happening over the course of more than two decades.
In terms of financial volume the global advertising industry operates on the same order of magnitude as the entire global petrochemical sector. There’s an industry with the explicit purpose to influence others’ behavior and convictions - it’s literally a way to turn money into votes, favors and support - of course this is what’s going to happen with it.
It’s this aspect of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that got way too little attention.
Why does humanity never learn. Ban the rich. Permanently. Ingrain it into our psyche for every generation to come or this shit will never stop coming back.
It’s all part of turning the world into a vassal state of the russian mob. See: Trump, Donald J.
