(The Manila Times is reprinting this story, published on May 16, 2015, in light of the recent scandal in the US over the sharing of personal data of millions of Facebook users with Cambridge Analytica, a consultancy firm that worked for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Some experts believe that the culling of personal data helped Trump win the US election in 2016. Cambridge Analytica’s suspended CEO, Alexander Nix, visited the Philippines three years ago and predicted that future elections will be won by non-traditional methods. The writer, Joel Egco, is now an undersecretary of the Presidential Communications Operations Office. On Saturday, April 7, a Hong Kong newspaper quoted Christian Monsod, a former chairman of the Commission on Elections, as saying that Alexander Nix could be investigated for meddling in the 2016 Philippine general elections.).

AS the world changes with the advent of technology, so will the method in which leaders will be elected according to British-born election expert Alexander Nix.