Timothy Birdnow

Facebook allowed Obama to use their data in the 2012 election cycle, according to an Obama staffer.

From Breitbart:

" 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

In a series of tweets, Davidsen that Facebook was "surprised” that the Obama campaign was able to "suck out the entire social graph” (the "social graph” is an individual’s network of friends on Facebook), but did nothing to stop them once they found out.

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

Davidsen also linked to a talk from 2015 in which she explained how Facebook’s privacy policies in 2012 allowed them to harvest data on friend networks across America.

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Yet now Fakebook climbs on their high horse because a conservative billionaire legally used some information - and that before he even threw his support to Donald Trump.

Back when Obama did this the media marveled at his skill and ingenuity. Now that the dog has bitten them, they don't like it. That's the trouble with dirty dealing; so often it cuts both ways.

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