it’s genius when Obama does it. this must be at least 10,000 words of praise from Rutenberg/NYT:
20 Jun 2013: NYT: The Obama Campaign’s Digital Masterminds Cash In
by Jim Rutenberg; Editor: Ilena Silverman
(A version of this article appears in print on June 23, 2013, on Page MM22 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: Data You Can Believe In)
The campaign didn’t go into much detail, at the time, about exactly how it used Facebook. But St. Clair put it in fairly stark terms when I talked to him at A.M.G.’s temporary offices in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in April. They started with a list that grew to a million people who had signed into the campaign Web site through Facebook. When people opted to do so, they were met with a prompt asking to grant the campaign permission to scan their Facebook friends lists, their photos and other personal information. In another prompt, the campaign asked for access to the users’ Facebook news feeds, which 25 percent declined, St. Clair said.
Once permission was granted, the campaign had access to millions of names and faces they could match against their lists of persuadable voters, potential donors, unregistered voters and so on...
The campaign’s exhaustive use of Facebook triggered the site’s internal safeguards. “It was more like we blew through an alarm that their engineers hadn’t planned for or knew about,” said St. Clair, who had been working at a small firm in Chicago and joined the campaign at the suggestion of a friend. “They’d sigh and say, ‘You can do this as long as you stop doing it on Nov. 7.’ ” (Facebook officials say warning bells go off when the site sees large amounts of unusual activity, but in each case the company was satisfied the campaign was not violating its privacy and data standards.)
By March 2012, Wagner’s team had a workable list of what it deemed to be the most persuadable voters — in total, roughly 15 million of them in the swing states...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campaigns-digital-masterminds-cash-in.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=FE5D8B781283D80A161292A7765C1DA2&gwt=pay
May 2017: GatewayPundit: #BrockGate: Playbook Shows Media Matters Has Access to Raw Data From Facebook, Twitter, and More
by carter
Following yesterday’s exploration of the #BrockGate documents and our look at Media Matters’ “Trump War Room”, new findings indicate that Media Matters has access to the raw data of numerous social media platforms, plus the power to influence their understanding on what is and isn’t “fake news”.
The following is an excerpt from page 10 of the #BrockGate document:
“Media Matters has already secured access to raw data from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites. We have also put in place the technology necessary to automatically mine white nationalist message boards and alt-right communities for our archive.
We will now develop technologies and processes to systematically monitor and analyze this unfiltered data.”
The following is a brief of summary of the findings in the document:
In the document, the group claims that they will push the Russia narrative forward, they assert that they will steal the best talent from the other left-wing outlets and consolidate them into Shareblue (they will convince “top editorial and writing talent [to] leave competitors to join Shareblue”), they propose a paid “Twitter-like” social network for the “opposition” to collude, they discuss their “Antidote to Breitbart” and their goal of controlling platforms like Google and Facebook, and they also mention a “Trump War Room” and their goal of keeping President Trump “unpopular” and how they are actively trying to portray President Trump as a “weak, think-skinned [sic] ‘loser’ vulnerable to goading”. In all, this is a comprehensive three-year game plan that the left hopes to implement to great effect in their effort to win votes in 2018 and take the White House in 2020...
For more information on the “Trump War Room”, read here.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/brockgate-playbook-shows-media-matters-access-raw-data-facebook-twitter/
Bttt!
Thank you for finding and reposting those things. There were a few more that I remember bits of, but this gives a fair view.
There’s at least one other which makes reference to the 85 or so tracking cookies the Obama Campaign loaded when someone went to one of their sites, which tracked where else those people went online. It makes reference to how they’d send out tailored invitations to a fundraiser, mentioning certain people would be there on one invitation, and not another - while presenting the opposite on another group of invitations.