Call it techno-colonialism — the idea that the leaner parts of the world are where you go to conduct your beta tests. Like so much else about Cambridge Analytica and SCL, they were merely putting a sinister flourish on something the tech industry does as a matter of course. The most obvious example comes from the company that most wants to distance itself from Cambridge Analytica: Facebook. But the kerfuffle didn’t stop Facebook from continuing to treat smaller and developing countries as its corporate testing ground. Luke MacGregor / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesStringer / Reuters Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga (center) lost three successive elections to Uhuru Kenyatta, who had hired Cambridge Analytica.

Source: Huffington Post March 23, 2018 18:22 UTC