<story><title>Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/10/facebook-rankwave-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>inflatableDodo</author><text>My prediction after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke is that it would lead to an explosion in wealthy people who want to play at noopolitics.&lt;p&gt;I suspect they have dozens of CA&amp;#x27;s on their hands currently. At the very least, if not hundreds.&lt;p&gt;The key takeaway that some people will have had from Cambridge Analytica, is not &amp;#x27;they got caught, don&amp;#x27;t do this&amp;#x27;, but rather &amp;#x27;they were largely successful and incredibly cheap&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;The upshot from having lots of players in this space however, is not one of greater control by insidious power addicts, but rather a loss of control as the players compete for attention and influence. So, chaos in the news and the elimination of any kind of consistent narrative from on high. I think we have been experiencing this for a while now. In some ways it is almost an improvement.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/10/facebook-rankwave-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>Michael Lewis (Moneyball, Big Short) interviewed Alex Kogan:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atrpodcast.com&amp;#x2F;episodes&amp;#x2F;the-alex-kogan-experience-s1!d20f3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atrpodcast.com&amp;#x2F;episodes&amp;#x2F;the-alex-kogan-experience-s1...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;After listening to this, it sounds like Cambridge Analytica was overblown, in the sense that the information wasn’t as useful as claimed.</text></comment>