What's fascinating to me about The Cambridge Analytica Files is the reaction from within Facebook. They seem to be panicking. I've never noticed Facebook reacting so defensively before, regardless of what they were accused of.
It seems worthwhile to keep the investigation into Russian activity open, since it has turned up a lot of interesting things already. There are many other capable prosecutors besides mr Mueller who could look into the role of Facebook during the elections. The justice system is concurrent; it can investigate more than one thing at a time :)
One does not necessarily exclude the other. Heck, you have Lukoil mentioned in this article, with Wylie claiming that they were briefed on what Cambridge Analytica was doing.
My opinion about the elections: Each piece had to fit perfectly for Trump become president, and unfortunately (for the entire world), each piece did fit perfectly.
Knowing that he won while losing the popular vote, taking away a single piece would result in him not being a president today. Cambridge Analytica definitely seems like a piece that could have made all the difference, but Russia could have also been such a crucial piece.
And, if we do go under the assumption that both CA and Russia could have made all the difference, one is a private company operated in a country that's one of the closest allies to the US, while the other piece is a country that's basically the enemy of the US for the past 50 years.
Taking all of that into consideration, I would still prioritize investigating Russia over CA if I were Mueller.
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What's fascinating to me about The Cambridge Analytica Files is the reaction from within Facebook. They seem to be panicking. I've never noticed Facebook reacting so defensively before, regardless of what they were accused of.
The writer even claims that Facebook threatened to sue the Guardian before publication: https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/974995682124804099
Really makes me wonder if there were any other big stories that got redacted pre-publication because Facebook threatened to sue the publisher.
Maybe Mr. Mueller should open the investigation on Facebook role in the 2016 elections instead of looking into Russian trolls actions.
It seems worthwhile to keep the investigation into Russian activity open, since it has turned up a lot of interesting things already. There are many other capable prosecutors besides mr Mueller who could look into the role of Facebook during the elections. The justice system is concurrent; it can investigate more than one thing at a time :)
One does not necessarily exclude the other. Heck, you have Lukoil mentioned in this article, with Wylie claiming that they were briefed on what Cambridge Analytica was doing.
My opinion about the elections: Each piece had to fit perfectly for Trump become president, and unfortunately (for the entire world), each piece did fit perfectly.
Knowing that he won while losing the popular vote, taking away a single piece would result in him not being a president today. Cambridge Analytica definitely seems like a piece that could have made all the difference, but Russia could have also been such a crucial piece.
And, if we do go under the assumption that both CA and Russia could have made all the difference, one is a private company operated in a country that's one of the closest allies to the US, while the other piece is a country that's basically the enemy of the US for the past 50 years.
Taking all of that into consideration, I would still prioritize investigating Russia over CA if I were Mueller.
s/instead of/as well as/
Why not both.