Interesting take on the Cambridge Analytica disaster, ideas not entirely mine (Gruber, Cringely, randos in the street):
Zuckerberg knew in 2015 that Cambridge Analytica had been using Facebook to identify and manipulate voters as part of the Trump campaign.
Zuckerberg lied to the entire world when he said, in 2016 "Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way — I think is a pretty crazy idea".
We now know that he fucking knew it had been happening, and Trump's victory
proved that it worked. Zuckerberg spinning FUD about it and not doing anything to change the Facebook functionality and policies that enable it suggest one conclusion:
The Facebook functionality and policies that enable voter manipulation to sway elections were there deliberately because Zuckerberg intended to use them himself, for himself. I know, silly, because
Zuckerberg isn't running for President.
Totally not running for President.