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Give me a break. All politicians put ads on Facebook. Surprising I know but Clinton put ads on Facebook too. Obama puts ads on Facebook, he gets marketing award

• dane-pgp 6y ago
  > Trump does the same thing and suddenly it’s armageddon and the Russians are coming. I think the complaints about Trump's 2016 campaign are that: 1. There's an important difference between Americans spending money to influence an American election and Russians (secretly) spending money to influence an American election. (Alternatively/additionally, Russia hacked computers and used that illegally obtained data to influence the American election). 2. When targeting ads, there's a difference between using data that voters willingly give your campaign and data that was disingenuously collected about people (e.g. Cambridge Analytica's infamous "5,000 data points on every American"[0]). The extent to which either of these things happened is subject to debate, as is the extent to which either of them changed the outcome of the election. [0] https://www.wired.com/story/what-did-cambridge-analytica-really-do-for-trumps-campaign/ https://www.wired.com/story/what-did-cambridge-analytica-rea...