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Can someone explain to me why the Cambridge Analytica story is making people so much angrier than the later revelation that Facebook was scraping call+text info?

The lie that facebook (and the like) are sold on is that there are zero possible negative ramifications of giving Facebook that data. Of course that's not true. But something has caught people's attention and they're waking up to it.

Now is the time to tell them all the other reasons to not trust facebook. Loudly scratching your head about why people care about Cambridge Analytica is to miss the opportunity you have.



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