The 2018 Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal showed how a company was able to amass huge amounts of psychological (Big Five) data from your profiles, and use it to sway the democratic voting process in their favour. To prevent this from happening again, we should better understand the current research of how our personality traits predict political beliefs.

All research references can be found at the website.

LAFM #21: Understanding how the Big Five personality traits relate to political belief can help me appreciate the pros and cons of both sides of the political spectrum, as well as prevent myself from being politically manipulated.

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