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give me a break, Obama's team was allowed to suck up Facebook's entire social graph and also used an app to get the data for all of the app users friends without consent

https://www.fastcompany.com/40546816/obama-campaigns-targete...

Zuckerberg and Sandberg hosted events to raise money for Obama

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-harnessing-facebooks-soci...

The media called it genius and a good thing when obama used data and social media to win. Those dumb dinosaur conservatives were being left behind by tech savvy democrats. Now it's portrayed as evil when the reverse happened. Pure propaganda

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.htm...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-...

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I dont think it matters? I didnt say it was evil, interestingly enough you did

Cambridge Analytica is still the instruction manual

Its almost like your response was on your clipboard for anytime you saw CA in a sentence

How would you expect me to respond to that.. sorry that Obama’s team isnt getting credit?

This is propaganda level whataboutism that is attempting to conflate two different things.

1. The Obama for America campaign directly asked users permission to access their friend graph, which was allowed and stated in the permissions at the time before FB reduced app permission scope.

2. The action taken on that data was to cross reference publicly available voter registration lists to suggest those most likely to respond to an invitation to join the campaign sent by the first user. No consent was missed here either.

Whereas Cambridge Analytica:

1. Bought the data from a third party, who had slurped it down under the pretenses of "academic research" in a random quiz app. Already a couple layers of misdirection here. This was after FB had tightened up their data usage policy

2. Peddled the data for targeted harassment and voter manipulation with false or misleading info. The leadership pitched services such as staging blackmail by spreading rumors about an opponents sexuality, targeting them with prostitutes and then disseminating that info.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-trump-consultant-and-cambri...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-campaign-use-tactics...

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