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There's been evidence that the Trump campaign did a massively better job of taking advantage of Facebook than any other campaign, Republican or Democrat, had pr

There's been evidence that the Trump campaign did a massively better job of taking advantage of Facebook than any other campaign, Republican or Democrat, had previously. There's also evidence that Facebook's advertising models were a massive help -- the Trump campaign and affiliated organizations were paying much lower advertising rates than the Clinton campaign + affiliates, largely because Facebook's model prioritized the kind of controversy-and-outrage-generating stuff Trump was putting out there (since controversy and outrage drive engagement, and engagement is the metric Facebook cares about).

ataturk 9y ago
The only reason I can think that the Democrats wouldn't have used the data is because their plan was to rig the election. I say that because other than Seth Rich, the Democrats have no a single shred of ethics at work anyplace. If the Democrats thought murdering old ladies would win them the election, they would murder old ladies. Not that some of the Republicans wouldn't--they are all birds of a feather, after all. The delicious thing about Trump, and what is becoming more and more clear, is that he is a reformed sociopath, or is trying to be that. I support him only for that reason--if we can't successfully reform our government and eliminate many of the truly awful people in it, then we're headed for a civil war as the next step. Regular Americans can't survive an oligarchy.