Brace yourselves, this is somewhat a heavy topic.
I read a book a few years back called Tech vs Democracy. It was written around the time of a UK election, where Cambridge Analytica got a lot of attention for using harvested Facebook data for political advertising.
As a result, paid targeting options on social media have been changed so you can no longer target people with certain political opinions (although, let's face it, there are still ways to do that) but now I've been thinking a