Director of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Engagement, University of Maryland
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Facebook is Killing Democracy with its Personality Profiling Data
The problem isn’t that this psychographic data were exploited at a massive scale. It’s that platforms like Facebook enable people’s data to be used in ways that take power away from voters and give it to data-analyzing campaigners. In my view, this kills democracy.
March 26, 2018