19-03-2018 23:26 via dfw.cbslocal.com

How Facebook ‘Likes’ Could Profile Voters For Manipulation

NEW YORK (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Facebook likes can tell a lot about a person. Maybe even enough to fuel a voter-manipulation effort like the one a Trump-affiliated data-mining firm stands accused of — and which Facebook may have enabled.
Both The New York Times and The Guardian newspaper reported that former Trump campaign consultant Cambridge Analytica used data, including user likes, inappropriately obtained from roughly 50 million Facebook users to try to influence elections.
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