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RE: Classic Example Of Propaganda - Gizmodo Saying FB Data Was Stolen

in #informationwar7 years ago

BUT it helped Trump win, so they will say it was stolen.

Oh such a fine line between "stolen" and "harvested". If it helps Trump, it's a security breach of epic proportions. If it helps Obama win, it's called groundbreaking technological data-mining.

In 2012, the Obama campaign encouraged supporters to download an Obama 2012 Facebook app that, when activated, let the campaign collect Facebook data both on users and their friends. According to a July 2012 MIT Technology Review article, when you installed the app, "it said it would grab information about my friends: their birth dates, locations, and 'likes.' " The campaign boasted that more than a million people downloaded the app, which, given an average friend-list size of 190, means that as many as 190 million had at least some of their Facebook data vacuumed up by the Obama campaign — without their knowledge or consent.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-scandal-trump-election-obama-2012/