Text Title: The Data That Turned the World Upside Down
Text type: Informative
Text creator: Hannes Grassegger & Mikael Krogerus
Critical literacy questions:
- What does the author of this text want us to know?
- The author wants the readers to inform us about how Facebook users were targeted for Donald Trump to win the 2016 US presidential elections.
Date: 19 February 2021
This article is talking about Michal Kosinski discovering that Facebook data was powerful. This data can find out your personality (gender, skin colour [95% accuracy) and which party that user will vote for with around 85% accuracy.
