An exposé by The Guardian on the Trump-connected Cambridge Analytica firm’s efforts to gather data on Facebook users has set off a media firestorm over the issue of creating digital profiles of people for the purposes of targeted campaigning. The only problem, as many have pointed out, is that the very same media now so concerned about such efforts repeatedly praised the Obama campaign for doing the same thing back in 2012.
In yet another soundbite she probably wishes she could get back, during President Obama’s second term, Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) once touted Obama’s massive database, which she described as having “information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before.”
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