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Pretty funny that in the preceding years they gave for free the same data to the Obama administration. Then they sell it for the Trump campaign and all hell br

Pretty funny that in the preceding years they gave for free the same data to the Obama administration. Then they sell it for the Trump campaign and all hell breaks loose. Maybe facebook should have given that away for free too? It's pretty obvious there's a huge double standard going on here that's totally being ignored. I find it funny at how willing the left is to self destruct without thinking.

runamok 9y ago
Who gave the data (what data?) for free? Facebook? Cambridge Analytical? Iiuc the whole brouhaha comes from 2 facts. 1. An old app (some survey app) sold it's data against fb's terms of services to an outside group. 2. Fb's access rights used to Grant access to the info not only of the user of the app but also that user's friends and thus ballooned from 700k users to 50+ million. Now as far as allowing political campaigns to target people for all kinds of criteria I am sure that is still happening and how all advertising works...