Checked out the big scoop the Brits had today.
@Channel4News says it obtained a huge database used by Trump& #39;s 2016 campaign & found 3.5M Black voters were microtargeted for online "deterrence." Trump 2016 had so much info on these voters the reporter was able to go their homes.
@Channel4News says it obtained a huge database used by Trump& #39;s 2016 campaign & found 3.5M Black voters were microtargeted for online "deterrence." Trump 2016 had so much info on these voters the reporter was able to go their homes.
Familiar parties emerge in @Channel4News report: Cambridge Analytica, which built the database & Facebook, which ran ads geared at Black voters like the Clinton super-predator commercial, viewed millions of x& #39;s.
FB wouldn& #39;t reveal how many of these targeted ads it ran in 2016.
FB wouldn& #39;t reveal how many of these targeted ads it ran in 2016.
This is all legal but Jamal Watkins of @NAACP, asks why FB is in the biz of allowing ads designed to keep Black voters at home:
“Facebook is a very profitable platform. It reaches billions of folks every day. It doesn’t need this kind of money."
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“Facebook is a very profitable platform. It reaches billions of folks every day. It doesn’t need this kind of money."
Facebook says 2016 won& #39;t happen again: