> Obama's campaign said they were scraping for academic purposes, downloaded a bunch of data and then lied about deleting it? Fair point. But wondering if anyo

> Obama's campaign said they were scraping for academic purposes, downloaded a bunch of data and then lied about deleting it? Fair point. But wondering if anyone asked them to delete it, and then went about verifying it later? I am guessing nobody bothered too hard because as the person in charge of the strategy said "Facebook were on our side" https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568208886484997 https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568208886484997 --- They [Facebook] 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. ---