Facebook knows exactly how and why it’s a malign force in the world but its appeasement of the far-right traps us all in a viscous loop of radicalization, polarization, disinformation, and social decay. #TheGreatHack wsj.com/articles/faceb…
*A vicious loop. Not a viscous one.
Prof @sivavaid puts it most succinctly in his book; reiterated by @Moonalice in his: “The problem with Facebook is Facebook.” #TPWFIF 
Gets lost in the shuffle but here’s Brad Parscale admitting to House Intel Committee that Cambridge Analytica voter data (tainted by its being produced from an illicit legacy model of pilfered FB data) was used by Trump in 2016, as advised by FB campaign embeds. #TheGreatHack
Nix, the unreliable narrator, who misled Congress and Parliament, was pinned down by @JamieJBartlett for the BBC’s Secrets of Silicon Valley on the matter of legacy data (ie, illicit) models being used in the Trump campaign. #TheGreatHack
I keep coming back to Cambridge Analytica because it’s used in reporting as a kind of short-hand for some milestone for FB, still haunted by this demon, yet to be exorcised, despite the issuance of fines and testimonies and assurances. #TheGreatHack wsj.com/articles/faceb…
We mounted a quest to repatriate our Cambridge Analytica data in search of truthful answers. The podcast interview with @heffnera (excerpted in @thegreathackdoc) reminds us what remains at stake when cheaters don’t get caught.
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But the Cambridge Analytica ghosts continue to haunt Facebook in the open DC AG lawsuit seeking discovery about when Zuck and the c-suite realized what Cambridge Analytica really was and then justified working side-by-side with CA/SCL in the Trump campaign. #TheGreatHack
