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Originally Posted by onwebcam
Yet, perhaps of greatest relevance to the controversy surrounding Cambridge Analytica is how the Obama campaign leveraged Facebook. As Carol Davidsen, former Director of Integration of Media Analytics for Obama for America put it last night in a series of tweets reflecting back on the 2012 campaign: “Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing. They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.” Yet, she caveated the campaign’s use of the data noting that the project “felt creepy” but that they “played by the rules.”
A New York Times Magazine profile of the time offers a bit more detail how the Obama campaign’s platform worked and it is strikingly similar to the system Facebook claims was used by Cambridge Analytica. As the Times describes it, the campaign “started with a list that grew to a million people who had signed into the campaign Web site through Facebook. When people opted to do so, they were met with a prompt asking to grant the campaign permission to scan their Facebook friends lists, their photos and other personal information. In another prompt, the campaign asked for access to the users’ Facebook news feeds” which 75% permitted and “once permission was granted, the campaign had access to millions of names and faces they could match against their lists of persuadable voters, potential donors, unregistered voters and so on.”
According to one staffer who was involved with the project, next “it would take us 5 to 10 seconds to get a friends list and match it against the voter list … [next] we would grab the top 50 you were most active with and then crawl their wall … we asked to see photos but really we were looking for who were tagged in photos with you, which was a really great way to dredge up old college friends — and ex-girlfriends.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevle.../#4f88a7a44838
What does Obama's "campaign" need with knowing who your old friends and ex-girlfriends are?
What you think is a "gotcha Trump" moment is going to blow up in the left's collective faces. Taking facebook down with it. |
You're really dumb.. you should get some new material.. Obama hasn't been president in a year.. Hillary never was.. you should move on to playing the forever victim like the rest of the Republican party..
This shows exactly how dumb you are.. That article talks about how Obama used bought data from us cable companies which is something normal in the advertising world and "legal".
Meanwhile Cambridge illegally scraped Facebook profiles with out user consent rand Facebook did nothing to stop them. Much more Cambridge is not a US company and Trump's campaign bought from them on hopes of effecting the election.. That's a foreign enitity on top of it being illegallygained data..
You are grabbing at straws as usual..