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The BBC aired a documentary about Cambridge Analytica and how Trump's digital strategy team used Facebook using the information gathered through analytics to ta

The BBC aired a documentary about Cambridge Analytica and how Trump's digital strategy team used Facebook using the information gathered through analytics to target people. Evidence this thing exists: https://twitter.com/bbcstories/status/896752720522100742 https://twitter.com/bbcstories/status/896752720522100742 It's been a while, but I am pretty damn sure in this documentary it was mentioned that due to the amount of money the Trump campaign invested in their digital strategy efforts people from Facebook were assisting them on site to make sure everything went smoothly. And now the same company who at that time happily took Trumps money and gave the campaign full assistance (and thus being fully aware of the kind of gray area shit CA was pulling off) is making them look like cyber criminals, likely to just look "good" (while they actually were just as bad) and virtue signal the living shit out of this incident. Amazing.

mistermann 9y ago
> people from Facebook were assisting them on site to make sure everything went smoothly I watched a show (60 minutes or something?) that said exactly that. Considering that, Facebook coming out with this now would seem a bit daring and provocative, but then we're well into the era where almost everything is propaganda & persuasion and the actual facts are mere details that no one will fact check anyways, so it's likely a pretty reasonable strategic move.
IAmEveryone 9y ago
I have no sympathy for Facebook, but I believe it’s entirely possible to square these facts: these consultants could have easily helped with ad management without being privy to the less benign side of the operation. The Cambridge Analytica campaign seems to also have been separate from the campaign’s main ad campaign run from the US, which is the one that got th consultants.
- mindcrash 9y ago
  According to the stuff I saw at least a few data scientists from CA were at the same location as Trumps digital strategy team in San Antonio, Texas. Which is the same location at which people from Microsof (although not on location 100% of their time), Facebook, Google and Twitter assisted into making him POTUS: "Those staffers, two each from Twitter and Facebook, and one from Google, and three from Microsoft, joined 12 more digital experts embedded in the campaign from Cambridge Analytica, the Boston-based data firm which is under investigation in both the U.S. and abroad, and is funded by Trump benefactor and billionaire Robert Mercer" Source: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/8xmvkg/trump-campaign-had-help-from-8-silicon-valley-staffers https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/8xmvkg/trump-campaign-ha... With all these people in just a small amount of space (because Trump's team and the office they were located in weren't that big according to the documentary) I can pretty much guarantee you that they all knew what was going on back then. Nothing stays secret, especially not in such small uncompartmentalized workspaces in which people need to work hard and work hard together.
retox 9y ago
>people from Facebook were assisting them on site to make sure everything went smoothly. Facebook make the same offer to the Clinton campaign and they turned down the offer.

mistermann 9y ago

> people from Facebook were assisting them on site to make sure everything went smoothly I watched a show (60 minutes or something?) that said exactly that. Considering that, Facebook coming out with this now would seem a bit daring and provocative, but then we're well into the era where almost everything is propaganda & persuasion and the actual facts are mere details that no one will fact check anyways, so it's likely a pretty reasonable strategic move.

IAmEveryone 9y ago

I have no sympathy for Facebook, but I believe it’s entirely possible to square these facts: these consultants could have easily helped with ad management without being privy to the less benign side of the operation. The Cambridge Analytica campaign seems to also have been separate from the campaign’s main ad campaign run from the US, which is the one that got th consultants.

mindcrash 9y ago
According to the stuff I saw at least a few data scientists from CA were at the same location as Trumps digital strategy team in San Antonio, Texas. Which is the same location at which people from Microsof (although not on location 100% of their time), Facebook, Google and Twitter assisted into making him POTUS: "Those staffers, two each from Twitter and Facebook, and one from Google, and three from Microsoft, joined 12 more digital experts embedded in the campaign from Cambridge Analytica, the Boston-based data firm which is under investigation in both the U.S. and abroad, and is funded by Trump benefactor and billionaire Robert Mercer" Source: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/8xmvkg/trump-campaign-had-help-from-8-silicon-valley-staffers https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/8xmvkg/trump-campaign-ha... With all these people in just a small amount of space (because Trump's team and the office they were located in weren't that big according to the documentary) I can pretty much guarantee you that they all knew what was going on back then. Nothing stays secret, especially not in such small uncompartmentalized workspaces in which people need to work hard and work hard together.

retox 9y ago

>people from Facebook were assisting them on site to make sure everything went smoothly. Facebook make the same offer to the Clinton campaign and they turned down the offer.