When one user suffered a panic attack after a night of online raging, his doctor urged him to cut out political Facebook usage. He did unplug, for a while at least.
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