This answer ignores some known details of the story. Cambridge Analytica didn't just buy targeted ads from Facebook. They used a sockpuppet to release a fake "take a personality profile" app, which then allowed them to gather tons of data against the Facebook terms of use.
The CEO of Cambridge Analytica has also been recorded telling a (fake) potential client that they routinely blackmail people using prostitutes and who knows what else.
So unless you can show that Clinton's campaign was doing the same things, your claim is a false equivalence.
This is exactly it. At least it stops the news from droning on and on about Russia.
I thought Clinton spent large amounts of money on data and the Democrats admitted the data was bad or at least that was their excuse. How much did CA pay for this data? I still find it crazy that Trump campaign spent 30% of what Hillary did and still won. The Russians used 100k$ worth of ads to sway the election. This stuff doesn't t add up.
Yes, that's a good point. Russia, Cambridge Analytica... anything that allows people to feel like the Trump phenomenon is a nefarious foreign import rather than homegrown. I'm no fan of Trump, but I'm incredibly dismayed that all the Democrats have talked about since he was elected is "Russian meddling."
Do you have any sources for your claim about how the Clinton campaign acquired FB data and how they used it? Was any of it acquired fraudulently and/or in violation of FB's ToS, like CA's data was?
This is a thread about how CA acquired and used data from Facebook, so I assume the parent comment was trying to make an apples-to-apples comparison. The alternative is that the poster was disingenuously trying to imply a false equivalence.
Sigh....the technical legality of obtaining the data is not the point of contention. Do you think that is what this is about, whether CA "broke the law"?
It doesn't have to add up, most people are too busy with their real lives to manually search and find reliable details (what we get from the media is not reliably unbiased or true), and then read and understand them, so they believe what they see and hear repeated over and over on the TV, radio, and newspaper: the American President is controlled by Vladimir Putin. Even most smart people don't seem to care about actual evidence.
We can freely infer things just from reading his own Twitter feed. Such as the silence of the Salisbury poisoning vs. the instant reaction to other UK terrorist incidents.
Oh please. His administration threw out 60 ambassadors in response to this very incident, and this is hardly the first instance of them acting against Russian interests. This paranoid Manchurian Candidate stuff needs to die already.
> Trump and Western Allies Expel Scores of Russians in Sweeping Rebuke Over U.K. Poisoning
> WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the expulsion of 60 Russians from the United States on Monday, adding to a growing cascade of similar actions taken by western allies in response to Russia’s alleged poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain.
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> On March 15, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on a series of Russian organizations and individuals for interference in the 2016 presidential election and other “malicious cyberattacks,” its most significant action against Moscow until Monday.
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> Mr. Trump has said that, despite its denials, Russia was likely behind it. “It looks like it,” he told reporters in the Oval Office on March 15, adding that he had spoken with Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain.
You have to wonder how far Trump has to go before something he does is considered hostile to Russia. Does he have to nuke Saint Petersburg?
From this you infer that he is under the control of Putin? He is pro Russia no doubt, but I don't think that is what's being asserted by the media. I'd prefer they stick to facts, do you disagree?
He's "pro-Russia" in the sense that he seems to have some sort of admiration for Putin's tough-guy persona, but I can't see much other sense in which that's meaningfully true.
