No, Obama Didn't Employ the Same Strategies as Cambridge Analytica

[workinclasszero]

No, Obama Didn’t Employ the Same Strategies as Cambridge Analytica
by Nancy LeTourneau March 21, 2018

Following reports that Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of millions of people on Facebook, the company signaled to right-wing media what their response should be. They took to Twitter with a lie that mirrors much of what we’ve heard from Trump over the last couple of years: “Obama did it too.”

Obama’s 2008 campaign was famously data-driven, pioneered microtargeting in 2012, talking to people specifically based on the issues they care about.

That is a fairly accurate description of data-driven microtargeting, which doesn’t have a lot to do with the kind of psychological profiling done by Cambridge Analytica. But the issue is not just how the data was used, it’s also how CA managed to compile 3,000-5,000 data points on approximately 230 million people. What we now know is that they used free personality quizzes, where people were told that their information was only going to be used for research purposes, and gathered not only all of their Facebook data in the process, but swept up all of the data from their Facebook friends as well.

Link to tweet

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/21/no-obama-didnt-employ-the-same-strategies-as-cambridge-analytica/#.WrJK9WsY5bs.twitter

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Trump supporters and trump are traitors, I dont want to hear JACK about

one of our greatest presidents in the same sentence as this FUCKING TRAITOR

[workinclasszero]

2. Agree 100%

Anyone that claims 'Obama did it too!" is a damned liar and a republican stooge!

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Dont know about you and others, but I dont listen to anything any of them or him

says anymore.

They are traitors, we are in a war with them NOT to be killed by them.

They are aligned with a psychopath, two of them, trump putin. They are the actual enemy.

[workinclasszero]

4. Same here but I just saw a post here on DU with the title:

But but Obama did it too!

The poster doesn't believe that I assume but I thought I would correct the record anyway.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Saw that, sarcasm I assume.

My point is there was a time I wanted to know what the liars, traitors, filth were saying to be prepared to have the truth for them, since everyday they are filled with so much stupid and lies.

But I no longer care what they say or think, about anything, at all.

The country is inches, moments from being over, done.

We need to elect any, ANY, any DEMOCRAT who can win, even if that person is a nightmare, because until we get ONE more seat than them, this wont stop.

[rzemanfl]

5. K&R. Fuck his false equivalency bullshit. n/t

[underpants]

7. Kick

And rec

[mythology]

8. You have squint really hard to conflate the two

They are in the same basic universe of data driven targeting, but much like we share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees, the difference is substantial.

[Gothmog]

9. No the Obama campaign did not use the same tactics as Cambridge

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[GusBob]

11. This is really sad for me

I don't know jack shit-all about this data gathering stuff

And I am one to consider both sides of an issue at first

But, the minute I read Trump's claim that "Obama did it too" I knew it was a lie

Without even checking, without even knowing thing one

I knew it was a lie

This is what it has come down to

[workinclasszero]

12. I was listening to hate radio today and the spin is...

Obama did it too! (LIE, Mercer and Bannon STOLE the info of 50 MILLION people, Obama stole ZERO info!)