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POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD
Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on March 22, 2018, 08:57:57 AM ---Who is saying the former
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every major news outlet when it happened
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on March 22, 2018, 07:14:51 AM --->>obama compiles information on voters
"an amazing database that is the future of campaigns"
>>Annoying Orange compiles information on voters
"IMPNEECH DA PRZNDTUH NAO"
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holy strawman, batman!
Master Matthew²:
--- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on March 22, 2018, 08:57:57 AM ---Who is saying the former
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Liberals
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on March 22, 2018, 02:50:36 PM ---holy strawman, batman!
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Holey rusted argument, batman!
Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on March 22, 2018, 02:50:36 PM ---holy strawman, batman!
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https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/09/tech/innovation/obama-data-crunching-election/index.html
http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/20/friended-how-the-obama-campaign-connected-with-young-voters/
--- Quote ---Obama may be struggling in the polls and even losing support among his core boosters, but when it comes to the modern mechanics of identifying, connecting with and mobilizing voters, as well as the challenge of integrating voter information with the complex internal workings of a national campaign, his team is way ahead of the Republican pack.
Facebook apps and other tools
Alone among the major candidates running for president, the Obama campaign not only has a Facebook page with 23 million "likes" (roughly 10 times the total of all the Republicans running), it has a Facebook app that is scooping up all kinds of juicy facts about his supporters.
Users of the Obama 2012 - Are You In? app are not only giving the campaign personal data like their name, gender, birthday, current city, religion and political views, they are sharing their list of friends and information those friends share, like their birthday, current city, religion and political views. As Facebook is now offering the geo-targeting of ads down to ZIP code, this kind of fine-grained information is invaluable.
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--- Quote ---That’s because the more than 1 million Obama backers who signed up for the [Facebook-based app] gave the campaign permission to look at their Facebook friend lists. In an instant, the campaign had a way to see the hidden young voters. Roughly 85% of those without a listed phone number could be found in the uploaded friend lists. What’s more, Facebook offered an ideal way to reach them. “People don’t trust campaigns. They don’t even trust media organizations,” says Goff. “Who do they trust? Their friends.”
The campaign called this effort targeted sharing. And in those final weeks of the campaign, the team blitzed the supporters who had signed up for the app with requests to share specific online content with specific friends simply by clicking a button. More than 600,000 supporters followed through with more than 5 million contacts, asking their friends to register to vote, give money, vote or look at a video designed to change their mind. A geek squad in Chicago created models from vast data sets to find the best approaches for each potential voter. “We are not just sending you a banner ad,” explains Dan Wagner, the Obama campaign’s 29-year-old head of brown townytics, who helped oversee the project. “We are giving you relevant information from your friends.”
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http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/20/technology/how-to-protect-facebook-data/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-brown townytica-Annoying Orange-campaign.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cambridge-brown townytica/Annoying Orange-consultants-harvested-data-from-50-million-facebook-users-reports-idUSKCN1GT02Y
:big throbbing thinking:
Conan:
well it appears that in Annoying Oranges case, it was taken without explicit consent or something (“data privacy policies violated”). unless im reading the last article you linked wrong?