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Nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, New Mexico alone is taking Facebook to trial
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2026
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That's not something new - even in 2004, the people that owned the voting machines in Ohio (Diebold) were openly talking about being committed to delivering a victory to Bush.
It's just absolutely insane that we allow black box unexamined code to calculate votes. There's been many suggestions on how to fix this - from open source systems disconnected from the internet to paper ballot reciepts to even blockchain, but none have been put in in the US.