They weren’t helpless, they were complicit, at least if early reports are still accurate that Facebook (meaning the Facebook employees who were actually assisti

They weren’t helpless, they were complicit, at least if early reports are still accurate that Facebook (meaning the Facebook employees who were actually assisting CA) knew what CA was doing while they advised CA on maximizing their data haul via the same techniques the Obama campaign had used in 2012 that had never been disabled. Facebook looks amoral and negligent in this story: All they cared about was making money by selling more data to a client with bottomless pockets. CA was using the data to maximize the effectiveness of their ratfucking operation, that depended upon understanding how Facebook’s newsfeed algorithms worked.