When even politicians from the left side of the American political melodrama turn on Facebook, a social-media giant run by people of the left and one that Obama’s campaign once deftly used to great political influence, you know the plot is ready for a twist. And not just by possible Russian-backed fake-news posts, but because Facebook allegedly allowed a consulting firm hired by the Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, to obtain information from the social-media monster on perhaps 50 million Americans. The possibility that Trump, who also baffled the left by using Twitter to influence voters, benefited from lose security protocols at Facebook is just too much for Democrats. “Democrats for years celebrated Facebook as a demonstration of the power of a connected world driven by liberal values. In the Obama era, Democrats and Facebook reveled in each other’s reflected glory.

Source: Forbes March 21, 2018 15:00 UTC