of their $537 billion market kap. in fact, the punch of that fine was wiped out by a $6 billion gain in their stock yesterday. central to the most recent criticism of facebook privacy practices is the cambridge analytica scandal and its role in shaping the 2016 election. the company was a central player in the influence campaign targeting persuadable voters to lean toward president trump. the president s 2016 campaign spent a total of $5.9 million bucks for the company s services. cambridge analytica employees were even embedded with the campaign s digital team along with facebook and google employees. now a chilling netflix documentary called the great hack is digging into cambridge, facebook, data collection at large, and all the parts they played in the influence campaign during the presidential