More on the Facebook and Data Mining Front. The Trump campaign was not the first to use data mining based upon Facebook data.
Ex-Obama Campaign Director Drops Bombshell Claim on Facebook: 'They Were on Our Side' JASON HOWERTON MAR 19, 2018 | 12:00 PM
A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do — because they were supportive of the campaign.
In a Sunday tweet thread, Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, said the 2012 campaign led Facebook to “suck out the whole social graph” and target potential voters. They would then use that data to do things like append their email lists.
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