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If you look back to Obama's campaign in 2008, Wired championed the part which was pretty similar to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Back then th
by aaron695 6y ago
If you look back to Obama's campaign in 2008, Wired championed the part which was pretty similar to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
Back then the ramifications weren't as obvious but there is zero retrospective on how they champion things and it's ok if it's their side. The monster of 'fake news' was also released by the left.
Obama's Secret Weapons: Internet, Databases and Psychology
https://www.wired.com/2008/10/obamas-secret-w/ https://www.wired.com/2008/10/obamas-secret-w/
- schoen 6y agoAn earlier smaller-scale version of that enthusiasm was visible during the Howard Dean campaign, which was considered the first Internet-centric or at least Internet-adept major party presidential campaign in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean_2004_presidential_campaign#Fundraising_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean_2004_presidential_... This was said to have disintermediated the connection between the candidate and the public, which, at the time, the press generally admired. While Dean apparently pioneered the idea of this direct connection through the Internet, he wasn't credited with the database and psychology expertise that Wired attributed to the Obama campaign four years later.