Chris Wylie, Facebook and the dark side of social media - The Listening Post (Lead)

Summary: 2018 was going to be the year Facebook would do things differently. Under intense scrutiny from governments and their regulators over fake news, hate speech and political manipulation on his platform, Mark Zuckerberg vowed to fix things. Then, last weekend, The New York Times along with the Guardian and Observer and Channel 4 in the UK broke a story that shattered Zuckerberg's PR campaign: Cambridge Analytica, a data analysis firm employed by US President Donald Trump's election campaign, harvested the personal information of more than 50 million American Facebook users. The goal was to create targeted political advertising to influence voter behaviour. This story sheds light on Facebook's business model of mass surveillance in order to make a profit off of users' information. Contributors: Hannah Kuchler, Silicon Valley correspondent, FT Siva Vaidhyanathan, director, Center for Media and Citizenship, the University of Virginia Ben Tarnoff, Tech columnist, Guardian and cofounder of Logic Magazine Silkie Carlo, director, Big Brother Watch - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/