Who’s afraid of Cambridge Analytica?

Maarten van Doorn
The Understanding Project
6 min readJun 21, 2021

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I’ve noticed many people being scared of digital manipulation, Cambridge Analytica style, where companies track your digital footprints to show you microtargeted content that penetrates your brain and manipulates your mind. If such a thing works, it seems possible for powerful people to hire such firms to direct public opinion and election results through the use of political campaigns ads targeted specifically to our…

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Maarten van Doorn
The Understanding Project

Essays about why we believe what we do, how societies come to a public understanding about truth, and how we might do better (crazy times)