For Facebook, you’re just a commodity in high-stake data trade

New Delhi: If you have seen the latest Netflix documentary “The Great Hack” on Cambridge Analytica (CA), a military contractor and psychological warfare firm involving a complex web of Facebook, Russian intrusion, the Trump campaign and Brexit referendum, it is time to meet Christopher Wylie — one of the two whistleblowers who blew the lid off the dark secrets of the “full service propaganda machine” and complete the dirty picture.

The biggest data scandal of the decade that shook the ground beneath Facebook and its senior leadership, “Cambridge Analytica is Steve Bannon’s (former Trump adviser) psychological mindf**k tool,” writes Wylie in his just released book, titled “Mindf**k: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World”.