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Originally Posted by Mick
Obama used similar practices in his re-election campaign on the 2012-2013 Ticket, as well and was praised for his "tech genius" for doing so.
But now Trump/Cruz used to it in their election campaigns, it's suddenly a 'huge problem.' How convenient.
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I posted on this a while ago. This is Facebook story is a nonsense. I really do not think journalists understand it properly.
First of all campaigning via social media utilising people's social connections and tailoring the message to different demographics is not new as you say. The coverage of this story keeps making it out to be some sort of advanced algorithm with CIA-style brainwashing ability. It's a bunch of stupid memes.
It's not new.
If it was so advanced how much Cruz lost?
The one thing I would say is that the 'scandal' isn't the same as Obama's techniques. The key difference being Obama's campaign was clear what is was going, you had to opt-in and they didn't scrape data without permission.
Also Facebook did not sell this data. It was obtained via a third-party application who then gave it to CA. This is where there are questions to an answered. But in the end this is old data that people. had uploaded to Facebook, hardly searing insight.