Facebook Lost $40 Billion After Allowing Private Company to Data-Mine 50 Million Accounts

In 2016, the company was paid $6 million to mine 50-million Facebook accounts on behalf of presidential candidate Donald Trump. The information was used to craft messages to manipulate voters based on their views expressed on Facebook. Cambridge uses contractors for highly unethical operations, including the use of bribery, sexual entrapment, and blackmail. If you think politics produces strange bedfellows, this commentary will provide you with lots of support for your convictions. [...]