Facebook came under fire earlier this week after claims that information from its users had been collected and used by political analysis firm, Cambridge Analytica, for campaign research without their consent. Now, there is video evidence that suggests that the Obama campaign was not only guilty of the same data usage, but that their use of Facebook users’ private information was encouraged by the $500 billion dollar company.
In the tweet published Monday, a video featuring Obama staffer Carol Davidsen indicates that the Obama campaign was able to “ingest the entire social network of the U.S. that’s on Facebook” to utilize social connections between users as they targeted advertisements and their social media offensive.
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According to additional tweets from Davidsen, Facebook “didn’t stop (them) once they realized that is what (they) were doing,” and even admitted that Facebook “allowed (them) to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.”
They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.
— Carol Davidsen (@cld276) March 19, 2018
While Facebook’s lack of judgment regarding its users’ privacy is disturbing, what is even more horrifying is their hypocrisy.
Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing.
— Carol Davidsen (@cld276) March 19, 2018
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