Yeah, agree completely. This is a Facebook story, not a leak story or a smoking gun to the oval office or Kremlin (not yet anyway). Voter profiling is nothing new. That said, this is a story. Just not the story many people want to make it into. Not yet anyway.
Am I the only one struggling to find the scandal in this morning's Cambridge Analytica reporting? Yes, there was a leak. But not by Facebook. Yes, they used data to profile voters. So has just about ever campaign for 25 years. I literally cannot find anything else of substance
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I have been staring at the tweet I wrote all day wishing I could edit it, revise it. But there it stands. Not saying it's not a story. Of course it is.
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Think of it this way: w/o the original tweet, there wouldn't be the broader explanations.
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True.
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Do not fall for the desensitization of this criminal activity. The 65% of the American electorate didn’t vote for this president, his tax cuts, his guns or his entire agenda. They cannot win without cheating. They cheated pure and simple.
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As I have written many times yesterday, if I could go back and edit that tweet for context, I would. Of course it's a story. I don't thing it is the smoking gun leading to the white house many are making it out to be. And most of what was reported we already knew.
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I hope that makes more sense, because I can completely see why that initial tweet did not.
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Gotta disagree Aaron. The underlying story is the view into how well or not FB are stewards of the systems they design and control. If they were not thoroughly opaque about this generally, it might be less explosive. Releasing at 5 on a Friday means they know it is too.
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That's true. I don't think FB handled this at all well. I don't think there's a lot in here we didn't already know, though. And certainly nothing that amounts to a smoking gun. This all still feels a bit like a corkboard filled with yarn and newspaper clippings.
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Interestingly, this comes when more alternatives will arise related to monetization of Social platforms w/ Blockchain.
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Yes, absolutely right.
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Stunning to see this question coming from someone with your background. My assumption is that you are a good person that innocently can't fathom how nefarious people will use this data to harm hundreds of millions for decades. In truth, this is the tip of the iceberg.
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Yeah, my original tweet lacked context, and I wish I could go back and edit. But. Not saying it's not a story. It is. It is, however, a Facebook story mainly at this point. I'm struggling to see (yet) how this is a smoking gun to the oval office. It may be eventually, absolutely
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You need to clarify that. It did not come across in your original tweet. This is newsworthy, full stop. (Wish one could add footnotes to tweets that get retweeted)
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Agreed. But, I posted it, so I deserve to take the lumps.
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That it was more than two years since they revealed. And.... That most people didn't know this level of targeting was even possible. Not breaking news at all, but no doubt will shock countless people.
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Yah, that may be. But we've been reporting on big data and politics for like two decades. The Obama campaign generated voter profiles on like 140M Americans. This is usually written in a sort of whiz bang, golly gee way. Now suddenly this is distopian.
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Correction: 180 million Americans. And the campaign "harvested" information it gleaned from those who interacted with Obama online.
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