Facebook for Trump? What a joke. Facebook and its main rival Twitter are so anti-Trump it makes your teeth hurt.Facebook likes money more than it hates Trump.
Where's the beef?
Facebook for Trump? What a joke. Facebook and its main rival Twitter are so anti-Trump it makes your teeth hurt.Facebook likes money more than it hates Trump.
A barely post-adolescent guy named Christopher Wylie has a way with data and social media. He got hooked up w/ Steve Bannon who subsequently hired him in 2016. Wylie put up a few of those "Find Out Stuff About Yourself" surveys on Facebook. Bannon paid for them. The collected data on some 230 million people(!) and used that data to help the Trump campaign.
If something embarasses the left they need to punish by launching anharassment committeeinvestigation.
Where's the beef?
Weird huh? That 230 million agreed to have their info made available, Their friends lists were part of the data....
Just more bullsh*t, the dems cry foul everytime someone does to them what they do to others...
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I didn't quite catch how they were "tricked" into making their personal data available to CA, or even if that was how it was done. ...
They've been doing this for at least few years. What's sad is that we haven't figured out a way to call them on it and make it stick 'cause there's no way we're going to match them in hypocrisy.
I recall in 2008 the MSM gushing over how the Obama campaign used big data gleaned from all their databases and that is why they won over the backwards GOP. Now if Trump used big data in 2016 he is evil incarnate. I would like to see a comparison of how Clinton and Trump used big data in the last election.
You get asked all the time. They send out some click-bait saying something like What is your dream car? Before it tells you it asks if it can check all of your data. If you don't agree you'll never find out what your dream car is. (You really want to, don't you? Just click the box.)
More sloppy writing from the MSM.
How would ANYONE using FB data ask users' permission? Has anyone asked you?
Doesn't FB sell the data to people who pay for it?
How is data posted on FB 'private'?
Amy can kiss my butt. The last thing I want is the govt deciding what I can post on the internet.
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I didn't quite catch how they were "tricked" into making their personal data available to CA, or even if that was how it was done. ...
Thinking back, I believe I remember them saying CA would ask them to take a quiz or some such, in order to get an idea as to their political notions, so they could be more accurately targeted with the right "propaganda" message or ad.
Whether they did the same for the 60 mils' friends or merely extrapolated from the 60 mils answers to their friends, assuming they would be like minded, I can't say, but I would guess the latter.
Whichever the case, it was a brilliant strategy for campaigning on social media. That's why the left is so butthurt about it now, 'cause they didn't think of it first...the friggin' idiots. ::smallestviolin::
I wouldn't be surprised, if it's possible to employ this on other social media platforms, to see some of them now come out and declare the same was pulled on them as well--a social media #metoo movement. ::hysterical::
And you wonder why Google is valued at almost $1,000,000,000,000.00......
I didn't quite catch how they were "tricked" into making their personal data available to CA, or even if that was how it was done. ...
Thinking back, I believe I remember them saying CA would ask them to take a quiz or some such, in order to get an idea as to their political notions, so they could be more accurately targeted with the right "propaganda" message or ad.
Whether they did the same for the 60 mils' friends or merely extrapolated from the 60 mils answers to their friends, assuming they would be like minded, I can't say, but I would guess the latter.
Whichever the case, it was a brilliant strategy for campaigning on social media. That's why the left is so butthurt about it now, 'cause they didn't think of it first...the friggin' idiots. ::smallestviolin::
I wouldn't be surprised, if it's possible to employ this on other social media platforms, to see some of them now come out and declare the same was pulled on them as well--a social media #metoo movement. ::hysterical::
It's called, "targeted advertizing", in this casy an "attractive" ad was placed on facebook, you fill out a questionaire, get a hokey answer, and the
"questioner" now knows your facebook name, and from there can get your friends names. Off facebook it happens when you go to different sites, amazon, walmart, bjs, etc. you go to the site, they get the visiting ip. Next you know, when you open your browser, oooooH! look at the ads.
You won't find a law that says you can't do it, it's how all that horsecrap junkmail shows up in yur email, and your home mailbox..
I recall in 2008 the MSM gushing over how the Obama campaign used big data gleaned from all their databases and that is why they won over the backwards GOP. Now if Trump used big data in 2016 he is evil incarnate. I would like to see a comparison of how Clinton and Trump used big data in the last election.
UK parliament asks Zuckerberg to testify in data misuse case
By DANICA KIRKA and GREGORY KATZ Mar. 20, 2018
LONDON (AP) — A British parliamentary committee on Tuesday summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer questions on fake news as authorities step up efforts to determine whether data has been improperly used to influence elections.
The request comes amid reports that a U.K.-based company allegedly used Facebook data to help Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election. The company, Cambridge Analytica, has been accused of improperly using information from more than 50 million Facebook accounts. It denies wrongdoing.
The chairman of the U.K. parliamentary media committee, Damian Collins, said Tuesday that his group has repeatedly asked Facebook how it uses data and that Facebook officials “have been misleading to the committee.”
“It is now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process,” Collins wrote in a note addressed directly to Zuckerberg. “Given your commitment at the start of the New Year to ‘fixing’ Facebook, I hope that this representative will be you.”
The request to appear comes as Britain’s information commissioner said she was using all her legal powers to investigate the social media giant and Cambridge Analytica over the alleged misuse of data.
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Denham said the prime allegation against Cambridge Analytica is that it acquired personal data in an unauthorized way, adding that the data provisions act requires platforms like Facebook to have strong safeguards against misuse of data.
https://apnews.com/3d7d35b8f9344d9bbc99d8870031cc03/UK-parliament-asks-Zuckerberg-to-testify-in-data-misuse-case
copyright 2018, AP--fair use claimed, for educational purposes
IMOP nothing illegal was done from what I have seen.
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Breaking up with Facebook? It’s harder than it looks[/size]
By BARBARA ORTUTAY
15 minutes ago (20MAR18)
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook’s latest privacy scandal, involving Trump campaign consultants who allegedly stole data on tens of millions of users in order to influence elections, has some people reconsidering their relationship status with the social network.
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more @:
https://apnews.com/18ecd2abaa334adcaabb9ea79c542a73/Breaking-up-with-Facebook?-It%27s-harder-than-it-looks
copyright 2018 AP --fair use claimed, for educational purposes
"Everybody wants to get in on the act." (Jimmy Durante):
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UK parliament asks Zuckerberg to testify in data misuse case
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"Everybody wants to get in on the act." (Jimmy Durante):
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UK parliament asks Zuckerberg to testify in data misuse case
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I know that the EU and UK have much stronger database privacy laws. I doubt any US laws were broken. If FB had some contract with a party buying their data and that contract was violated then they might have some private cause of action.
"Everybody wants to get in on the act." (Jimmy Durante):
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UK parliament asks Zuckerberg to testify in data misuse case
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I know that the EU and UK have much stronger database privacy laws. I doubt any US laws were broken. If FB had some contract with a party buying their data and that contract was violated then they might have some private cause of action.
Just a few years ago, they were the very ones bragging about how they had become Masters of the Internet Universe ...
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Facebook for Trump? What a joke. Facebook and its main rival Twitter are so anti-Trump it makes your teeth hurt.Facebook likes money more than it hates Trump.
A barely post-adolescent guy named Christopher Wylie has a way with data and social media. He got hooked up w/ Steve Bannon who subsequently hired him in 2016. Wylie put up a few of those "Find Out Stuff About Yourself" surveys on Facebook. Bannon paid for them. The collected data on some 230 million people(!) and used that data to help the Trump campaign.
If something embarasses the left they need to punish by launching anharassment committeeinvestigation.
They had the guy who oversaw the operation at Cambridge Analytica (accent on the ANAL in Analytica, 'cause the guy is obviously gay) on some news show today. A 20-something with dyed pinkish red hair, he only came forward with it now because of a sudden attack of SJW guilt, apparently.
From what I could gather, neither the Trump campaign nor Facebook did anything illegal or even unethical. It just "looks bad", I reckon, at least in the eyes of the left.
Wylie was very effective in using social media in the campaign, so much so, some have said his efforts were responsible for the victory. I don't doubt his being behind this--its just too damn good for him not to be.
But, I'm not going to expect too much in the way of praise from the FNMSM or left; not like they heaped upon the '08 Obozo campaign for their "pioneering" efforts at social media and internet use in campaigning; even to the point of illegality in the way they set up their campaign donations by credit card to be untraceable, so they could illegally collect foreign donations.
Now of course they are talking of regulating Facebook, and Twitter...
QuoteNow of course they are talking of regulating Facebook, and Twitter...
A very, very bad idea, right up there with Net "Neutrality". Once gummint gets its nose under the tent, next thing the whole camel is sitting on you.
The progs have lost all moral, ethical and intellectual authority on these matters...they are enemies of freedom, of liberty...of America.
They've let themselves regress to toddler level - and they get lots of support for it. It's what a sore loser is.
The progs have lost all moral, ethical and intellectual authority on these matters...they are enemies of freedom, of liberty...of America.
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