MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA -- Facebook continues to face an unprecedented crisis of plunging share prices, investor lawsuits, calls for government investigations, and a consumer boycott following the revelation that a massive trove of user information was taken without authorization by right-wing political operatives who engaged in a campaign of
Surveillance Capitalism and the State: Facebook Devastated on Multiple Fronts as Data Theft Crisis Grows
Material collected by Cambridge Analytica via Facebook quizzes — which included detailed psychological profiles of unsuspecting users for the purpose of “behavioral microtargeting” — was used by the campaigns of Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and right-wing Super PACs tied to billionaire Robert Mercer.
