Social media is the most sophisticated propaganda machine ever created

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Cambridge Analytica, a firm whose social media strategies helped Donald Trump to win the Presidential Election, is under fire for overstepping the mark and harvesting information from 50 million Facebook profiles without the users’ knowledge or consent. The episode has sparked a debate about the power that big tech companies hold in the modern world. But according to Guy Brandon, the biggest surprise is that we find this news surprising