Blaming CA, Facebook, Russians etc is convenient, but doesn't address the real cause. A good article IMHO.

Blaming CA, Facebook, Russians etc is convenient, but doesn't address the real cause. A good article IMHO.

Social media platforms, nefarious bots and dodgy data companies can amplify views that are already out there and distort perspectives that already exist – but they cannot invent them. In short they can manipulate the supply of ideas, but they cannot create the demand for those ideas from thin air.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/22/us-politics-data-cambridge-analytica-russia-trump