Which had zero long term implications. Some minor and now totally forgotten short term repurcussions.
The policy could be updated "we will sell the creepiest of the creepiest data on you and your friends. Hell your friends don't even need to sign up." And it would hardly change usage patterns.
Cambridge was a tiny distraction of the week that had no lasting effects.
Re:A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (2015)
by gvjddbnvdrbv on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:38AM
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Brexit??? It's going to have massive effects for a long time.
Elections have been fraught with various levels of targeted propaganda for a long time. Cambridge Analytica didn’t really even prove it worked better than previous methods of targeted advertising.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
edit: Change tone to be less snarky/combative. It was unintentional if I came across as rude.