The big story for the last few days is that Cambridge Analytical is supposed to have gathered Facebook information in 2016 and used that info to help the Trump campaign. Facebook itself just suspended CA from using the site. Now today, the director of media analytics for the Obama 2012 campaign says the Obama's group did the same thing and that Facebook knew. In fact, Carol Davidsen tweeted even more; she said the following about Facebook,
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.
So we have the Obama director of media analytics making clear that Facebook is only concerned about people using their data if they disagree with those people politically.
This really calls for regulation of Facebook. Either everyone ought to be able to used this data, or it should be protected and no one should be able to use it. Nothing else makes sense. It just cannot be that Facebook management gets to decide which political party to help. That becomes an illegal in-kind contribution worth tens of millions of dollars.
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.
So we have the Obama director of media analytics making clear that Facebook is only concerned about people using their data if they disagree with those people politically.
This really calls for regulation of Facebook. Either everyone ought to be able to used this data, or it should be protected and no one should be able to use it. Nothing else makes sense. It just cannot be that Facebook management gets to decide which political party to help. That becomes an illegal in-kind contribution worth tens of millions of dollars.
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