Partisan Hype Is Driving the Cambridge Analytica Scandal: New at Reason.

Senators and members of Congress wondering what to ask the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, when he turns up Tuesday and Wednesday of this week to testify on Capitol Hill might try this one: “How is what Cambridge Analytica and the Trump campaign did with Facebook data in 2016 any different from what the Obama campaign did in earlier years?”

Zuckerberg’s answer would be useful in sorting out how much of the election-related Facebook furor is partisan hype, and how much is a genuine scandal, writes Ira Stoll.

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