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Would you accuse other campaigns of swinging the election for using similar tactics? For example in Obama's 2012 campaign his online organizing director admitte

by 0xy 7y ago

Would you accuse other campaigns of swinging the election for using similar tactics? For example in Obama's 2012 campaign his online organizing director admitted to micro-targeting, harvesting of friends lists (and admitting the users of their app probably didn't know this, and it's now against FB ToS). [1] This same person recently founded a company that publicly boasted its tech could "sway" the 2020 election. [2] [1] https://www.npr.org/2018/03/25/596805347/how-does-cambridge-analytica-flap-compare-with-obama-s-campaign-tactics https://www.npr.org/2018/03/25/596805347/how-does-cambridge-... [2] https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/01/higher-ground-labs/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/01/higher-ground-labs/

hackinthebochs 7y ago
A strange reply considering the context. The moral judgment in the subtext of my comment isn't on swaying the election, its on foreign nation. The candidates and their agents are legitimately looking to sway the election in their favor. That's what campaigning is. That Obama's activities were in an effort to sway the election in his favor is an uninteresting point.