“We don’t know everything about Facebook’s role in [Donald Trump’s] campaign. What we do know — or certainly ought to know by now — is to not take Facebook at its word.”
— from Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
“Facebook sold ads during the campaign to a Russian ‘troll farm,’ targeting American voters with ‘divisive social and political messages’ that fit right in with Donald Trump’s campaign strategy… Truth was not a requirement.”
— from Sullivan, “Facebook’s Role in Trump’s Win,” Washington Post
For a more complete and fascinating article, see Lancaster, “You Are the Product,” in the London Review of Books. (note: ironically, you have to sign up to receive email from LRB, but you can easily unsubscribe to these by clicking at the bottom of the first one.)