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Some people (largely on the left) like to treat Cambridge Analytica as a dark boogey-man that broke politics.

This is partly true, however, a lot of hysteria around it is based off taking CA's marketing copy at face value.

The Cruz campaign (IIRC) fired them because they were useless.

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However, if CA is capable of delivering one should view them as more than “just“ a business... Perhaps CA’s owners found more value in not helping Cruz win?

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