First published at 01:38 UTC on March 23rd, 2018.
Trump Campaign wasn't the only one that manipulated Facebook users. In the fallout of the Trump campaign Cambridge Analytica scandal, mainstream media took the opportunity to play partisan politics. But manipulation of US voters through Faceboo…
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Trump Campaign wasn't the only one that manipulated Facebook users. In the fallout of the Trump campaign Cambridge Analytica scandal, mainstream media took the opportunity to play partisan politics. But manipulation of US voters through Facebook was first done by Obama in 2012 presidential election. Cambridge Analytica manipulation of Facebook users is fundamentally wrong no matter who does it. So let's be correct here and not fall into the tribal partisanship.
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Trump campaign didn’t have a permission to use Facebook data of 50 million users. The app developed by Cambridge University academic Alexander Kogan paid its 270,000 users to download it for research purposes only. When Facebook found out Cambridge Analytica used this harvested information, they told the company to delete all user data.
But Facebook couldn’t just go out there and admit to the leak of 50 million Facebook users that was going to be used for a political campaign. So they kept quiet, and Cambridge Analytica proceeded to use the data for Trump campaign without any sanctions.
Obama’s campaign on the other hand was allowed to manipulate Facebook users by flooding their social feeds with posts that would act as behavioral triggers. We learned from the last video that Facebook uses these behavioral triggers to influence people’s actions.
Sources:
The article: http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/20/friended-how-the-obama-campaign-connected-with-young-voters/
Tweets: https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975576363112509440
https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975564499297226752
Further reading:
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts/
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