Why I am optimistic about democracy, despite “The Great Hack”
6 min readAug 8, 2019
If you have not already watched “The Great Hack” on Netflix, I recommend you do so. Now.
Many of us are all too familiar with the scandal of how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook user data to influence (fix?) both the 2016 Brexit vote and then the US Presidential Election. The documentary, though, shows us the players almost in real-time as the scandal…