Stephen Maher: Millions of voters were led believe things that weren’t true, aided by Trump, Russia and social media. The West is finally waking up to the threat.
Ron Tite rants about why you shouldn’t blame Facebook or Mark Zuckerberg for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and why targeted advertising backed by real data on platforms like Facebook is actually amazing.
At the House of Commons ethics committee and in an interview with Maclean’s, Charlie Angus questioned Facebook’s political ties in Ottawa and lack of lobbying registration
Stephen Maher: A 2009 Canadian investigation warned about Facebook’s data collecting. It was right all along. And Zuckerberg’s apologies won’t fix this crisis.
The debate around personal data has largely focused on privacy as an individual choice. The Cambridge Analytica scandal shows how little choice we actually have
Opinion: Welcome to the age of ’surveillance capitalism’ where highly personalized information and psychological models are leveraged to change consumers’ behaviour and sway their opinions