We found these two articles useful in another day when journalism played the Sorcerer's Apprentice and produced an endless flow of, in Rachel Maddow Speak, "data points." -- blj
"Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as 'surveillance companies,'" Snowden said. "Their rebranding as 'social media' is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense."