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No, Obama Didnt Employ the Same Strategies as Cambridge Analyticaby Nancy LeTourneau March 21, 2018
Following reports that Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of millions of people on Facebook, the company signaled to right-wing media what their response should be. They took to Twitter with a lie that mirrors much of what weve heard from Trump over the last couple of years: Obama did it too.
Obamas 2008 campaign was famously data-driven, pioneered microtargeting in 2012, talking to people specifically based on the issues they care about.
That is a fairly accurate description of data-driven microtargeting, which doesnt have a lot to do with the kind of psychological profiling done by Cambridge Analytica. But the issue is not just how the data was used, its also how CA managed to compile 3,000-5,000 data points on approximately 230 million people. What we now know is that they used free personality quizzes, where people were told that their information was only going to be used for research purposes, and gathered not only all of their Facebook data in the process, but swept up all of the data from their Facebook friends as well.
Link to tweet
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/21/no-obama-didnt-employ-the-same-strategies-as-cambridge-analytica/#.WrJK9WsY5bs.twitter
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)one of our greatest presidents in the same sentence as this FUCKING TRAITOR
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Anyone that claims 'Obama did it too!" is a damned liar and a republican stooge!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)says anymore.
They are traitors, we are in a war with them NOT to be killed by them.
They are aligned with a psychopath, two of them, trump putin. They are the actual enemy.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The poster doesn't believe that I assume but I thought I would correct the record anyway.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)My point is there was a time I wanted to know what the liars, traitors, filth were saying to be prepared to have the truth for them, since everyday they are filled with so much stupid and lies.
But I no longer care what they say or think, about anything, at all.
The country is inches, moments from being over, done.
We need to elect any, ANY, any DEMOCRAT who can win, even if that person is a nightmare, because until we get ONE more seat than them, this wont stop.
rzemanfl
(29,567 posts)underpants
(182,868 posts)And rec
mythology
(9,527 posts)They are in the same basic universe of data driven targeting, but much like we share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees, the difference is substantial.
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)dalton99a
(81,566 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)I don't know jack shit-all about this data gathering stuff
And I am one to consider both sides of an issue at first
But, the minute I read Trump's claim that "Obama did it too" I knew it was a lie
Without even checking, without even knowing thing one
I knew it was a lie
This is what it has come down to
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Obama did it too! (LIE, Mercer and Bannon STOLE the info of 50 MILLION people, Obama stole ZERO info!)