When Obama and Facebook teamed up in 2012 that was “technological genius,” but when Trump does the same thing, it’s a “scandal”
by: JD Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
In recent days the Left-leaning Guardian newspaper published a “bombshell” report based on interviews spanning more than a year’s time. The interviews were with a tech nerd who helped a political consulting firm financed by billionaire Robert Mercer mine Facebook data so it could target Americans with pro-Trump messaging.
After reading the story you might be tempted to believe that somehow what the consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, its chief investor, Mercer, and the campaign of Donald J. Trump, did was illegal or, at the very least, wrong.
But in reality, what Mercer’s firm did is nothing less than what the reelection campaign of President Obama did in 2012. And, in fact, you could even say that the Obama campaign had significant amounts of help from Facebook’s uber-liberal creator, Mark Zuckerberg, and his Alt-Left editorial and data team managers.
The tech nerd who ‘spilled the beans’ of this ‘operation,’ Christopher Wylie, “offers a unique, worm’s-eye view of the events of 2016. Of how Facebook was hijacked, repurposed to become a theatre of war: how it became a launchpad for what seems to be an extraordinary attack on the US’s democratic process,” the Guardian reported breathlessly.
My. The Trump campaign is all that, huh? Not bad for a political neophyte whom the Left has characterized as the dumbest, most boorish, awful man to ever sit in the Oval Office.
Ah, but as is always the case when it comes to these wild accusations from the Left in the Age of Trump, the truth is far more revealing.
And the truth is, if anyone benefited in an outsized way from ‘mining’ Facebook’s user data, it was Barack Hussein Obama.
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