acebook (now Meta) legally owns everything you post to your account. And the Facebook algorithms determine who will and who will not see your posts. These algorithms are designed to maximize the amount of time we spend on the platform.

By tweaking its algorithms and molding the new we see, can Facebook game the political system? Can Russian hackers exploit Facebook to influence an election? What should be done moving forward?

According to our textbook, "In late 2015, the Guardian reported that a political data firm, Cambridge Analytica, had paid academics in the United Kingdom to amass Facebook profiles of US voters, with demographic details and records of each user's 'likes.' They used this information to develop psychographic analyses of more than forty million voters, ranking each on the scale of the 'big five' personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism." (p. 191) Did Cambridge Analytica break any laws? Should this type of business practice be illegal?

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