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Privacy and Manipulation: How Social Media Has Affected Political Discourse As our interactions with social media and messaging apps become more and more pervasive, does our data remain private or can it be used by algorithms to tailor and manipulate our online experience? The social media messaging application WhatsApp recently updated its privacy policy. WhatsApp has tried to assure users that it cannot read or listen to personal conversations and has even delayed the implementation of the new policy. Yet, concerns have been raised about the potential for it sharing user data with parent company Facebook. While the app uses end-to-end encryption for messages and will continue to do so with the new privacy update, it already shares user data, such as about location, contacts, usage and identifiers, with Facebook. Therefore, experts have explained that the key difference in the new policy relates to how users engage in “business interactions.” ....