The Facebook scandal opened people's eyes on how they're being manipulated.
The news is dominated currently by Cambridge Analytica, the data company that helped propel Donald Trump into the White House. It is in hot water this week, following reports that it harvested information from 50 million Facebook users without their consent.
You can see how they went about their business in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ"The two fundamental human drivers when it comes to taking information onboard effectively are hopes and fears, and many of those are unspoken and even unconscious. You didnt know that was a fear until you saw something that just evoked that reaction from you. And our job is to get, is to drop the bucket further down the well than anybody else, to understand what are those really deep-seated underlying fears, concerns. Its no good fighting an election campaign on the facts, because actually its all about emotion."
Could it be possible that the same kind of analytics and manipulations are called in by banks and/or governments to FUD cryptocurrencies?