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    Clinton campaign used Facebook app

    Now maybe the Dems will shut up.... I just do not see how they think that people are just going to fall for their whining. She lost, people did not want her to win and they voted. SHe might have won the popular, but as law dictates, it is the electoral vote that carries the day. Move on with your lives folks, Trump did nothing that Obama and Hilliary both did, she lost.
    Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign may have harvested the Facebook data of millions of people using an app that asked them to pair their Facebook friends list with their smartphone's contacts list – in a bid to reach those people and persuade them to vote for Clinton.


    In the midst of the election, the Clinton campaign launched a mobile application called “Hillary 2016” that worked its way around the banned practice of gathering information from users’ friends without their consent.


    The Clinton campaign’s use of big data raises concerns amid controversy surrounding Cambridge Analytica, a data-driven company with ties to the Trump campaign that was accused of mining Facebook data and using it to target potential voters.


    But a spokesman for Clinton pushed back against any comparisons with Cambridge Analytica, telling Fox News that the campaign’s mobile application merely “let users contact their friends about the campaign.”


    Trump and Cambridge Analytica, meanwhile, the Clinton spokesman charged, used “stolen” data “for a purpose that was entirely misrepresented to Facebook.”
    “It’s the difference between someone asking you to carpool versus them stealing your car,” he said.


    President Donald Trump, however, recently reminded the public that his social media operation was viewed during the campaign as being less expensive and less sophisticated than Clinton's.


    Facebook did not respond to a request for a comment.


    The social networking giant banned the practice of acquiring users’ friends lists in 2014 after former President Barack Obama’s campaign weaponized the method and got access to the data of millions of potential voters.


    But Clinton’s application took advantage of special iPhone and Facebook integration, asking every user to pair their friends list on Facebook with their phone contacts – and give the campaign permission to access that info.
    People who didn’t download the application weren’t able to stop friends from pairing their phone numbers with Facebook accounts if their friends decided to do so.


    Once the friends list was paired with the app, people had to swipe through their Facebook friends and dismiss those who, in their view, would never vote for Clinton. Once that was done, the remaining friends were sorted by location and the users could send a pre-written text message to convince them to back Clinton in numerous ways.


    Key developers of the application either declined to comment or did not respond to Fox News’ requests for interviews.


    The campaign said at the time that more than 150,000 people downloaded the application on their devices – meaning that millions of people’s information may have been harvested through the app.


    Politico was the first to provide an in-depth review of the app, but just a month before the election, nobody perceived the application as potentially invasive and, in fact, lauded it as an impressive election technology.


    It was not immediately clear how the campaign used the acquired data, though Clinton hired Elan Kriegel – the battleground states analytics director for Obama 2012 and mastermind behind using big data – to decide which voters would be targeted for campaign messages and in what ways.


    For the 2016 race, Trump and Clinton spent a combined $81 million on Facebook ads, according to Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, who revealed the sum during a congressional hearing last year.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...-millions.html

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    I've been told she lost the election but no one told her.
    Old redneck hillbilly borned and raised on a redwood stump.

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    It just goes to show that Obama used it successfully, Hilliary used it and failed, and Trump used it and won. It was even all the way around, why all of a sudden is it wrong for Trump to have used the same thing that the Dems did? I do not care that the so-called Russians posted things on Facebook, so does just about every other Country in the world, Facebook is a global website, it reaches anybody that has an internet connection. I have seen posts written in Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Farsi, Hebrew and all sorts of other languages, what is the big deal?

    Do the Dems think they own every damn thing in the world? CNN has offices all over the globe, are they now considered as Russian, British or any other place they are?

    Dems and Liberals, you suffered a crushing defeat, you lost for many many reasons, not just because of Facebook or the Russians. Your candidate sucked, your message sucked and if you do not pull your heads out of your ass, you will lose again. Your anything but Trump message is not the one hard working people want to hear, your whining has become incessant and peoples ears and eyes are tired of it.

    Get a message the voters like that deals with making their lives better. Quit promoting Muslims, Mexicans, Blacks, Gays , Females and any other single agenda and focus on the problems people all across America face making a living. That is what won the election for Trump, it wasnt collusion or facebook.

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    Most all those folks in Washington are dirty lowdown backstabbing people. Why else do you think we have no leadership. I I'm personally sick of them all of them they are dysfunctional ideologues.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    Most all those folks in Washington are dirty lowdown backstabbing people. Why else do you think we have no leadership. I I'm personally sick of them all of them they are dysfunctional ideologues.
    This is your mind on drugs!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    Most all those folks in Washington are dirty lowdown backstabbing people. Why else do you think we have no leadership. I I'm personally sick of them all of them they are dysfunctional ideologues.
    Over the top too cynical from my view.
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    Well you can categorize it any way you want to Joe. But it's real and it's true so I'm sorry you differ but I appreciate your comments.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    Well you can categorize it any way you want to Joe. But it's real and it's true so I'm sorry you differ but I appreciate your comments.
    I agree with you Honda, the basic job that the folks in DC are supposed to be doing is not being done, they are more concerned with the party and not the job.

    Throw them all out and start over, if they are worried about the D or the R in front of their names, throw them out as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    Most all those folks in Washington are dirty lowdown backstabbing people. Why else do you think we have no leadership. I I'm personally sick of them all of them they are dysfunctional ideologues.
    As long as you throw "most" in there, I agree!

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