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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 witho

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.