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HOW FACEBOOK LIKES COULD PROFILE VOTERS FOR MANIPULATION

Facebook likes can tell a lot about a person. Maybe even enough to fuel a voter-manipulation effort like the one a Trump-affiliated data-mining firm stands accused of — and which Facebook may have enabled.

The social network is now under fire after The New York Times and The Guardian newspaper reported that former Trump campaign consultant Cambridge Analytica used data, including user likes, inappropriately obtained from roughly 50 million Facebook users to try to influence elections.

Facebook’s stock plunged 7 percent Monday in its worst one-day decline since 2014. Officials in the EU and the

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