The amazing thing here is that most everything about Facebook by 2008, was laying out the path for massive usage of private data to affect elections and public opinion. You could see that being done in north African countries, and throughout the Middle East. You could see the applications being applied in 2011/2012 Russian elections.
So while they were busy manipulating the data....they never realized that other players were also looking at the data and going in the other direction.
To some degree (I certainly won’t give it more than 50-percent of the credit), Trump is President because of social media use. But the thing is....Hillary could have used the data as well, and we may find out in a month or two....that she also had such a company working on her social media crowd.
So now what? Will they legislate Facebook into a corner? Will the Facebook board terminate Zuckerberg as CEO and just make it an adviser? I’m of the mind for the whole political season of 2020....I will log out and refuse to use any social media for that entire period.
I propose that Hillary did not campaign in contested states and districts because she mistakenly believed that Obama’s Facebook analytics would Get out The Vote for her and win those districts.
For some reason Obama’s Facebook Team did follow through and Hillary lost. She chose wrong. Now Obama and Valjar and the deep state are battling PDJT for the American soul. My 2 cents.