Are Machine Learning, Big Data And Psychometrics Really Destroying Democracy? Articles Chief Data Officer

The claim is also forgetting the key reason why people create so much data that can then be used by these political campaigns - because they spend huge amounts of time online. To therefore argue that it'undermines the notion of an informed citizenry' is simply not true as they have this data on the citizenry because they do so much research online. That people are not informed about wider issues is perhaps an indication of IQ prejudice, where smarter people believe that those with a lower IQ lack the ability to research beyond what is put directly in front of them. The internet is available to around 90% of the US according to Pew, so if they are uninformed it is not that they lack the capacity, but simply that they either lack the drive or propensity to do so.