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 After watching four interesting videos on the broad scale of media ethics I was drawn to the parts of the first video that titled "Cambridge analytics scandal explained" in this video they were talking about how the company was basically founded from using hundreds of thousands of peoples data that they took from Facebook. This scandal is very intriguing as I think that this one of the companies that have gotten caught from doing this but there is so many more companies out there trying to get data and also trying to just about stay on the legal side and try and cut as many corners as they can to benefit their company and try get as many consumers to stay with their company one example of this was given in the video "how dark patterns trick you online" this example was the fact when you are subscribed to some websites and companies they will make it as difficult as possible in order for the consumers to cancel their subscription. They do by thinking that consumers ...