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Facebook has an API (google it) that allows customers (and no, that is not you, Facebook user - it is advertisers, political campaigns, etc.) that allows programmers to write code against all Facebook profile data (that’s you, Facebook user, your profile - all the info you gave them including your Likes and Dislikes, ad infinitum).

This API is open to anyone who is buying Facebook product - that is, user profile data.

Some programmers write better code than others to hitch up to the API.

Cambridge Analytics just did it better.

978 posted on 03/20/2018 1:45:16 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)

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I wonder what else Facebook did for President Obama in the way of targeted ads and data mining?

980 posted on 03/20/2018 1:51:45 PM PDT by STARLIT (Draining the Swamp includes Cleaning out the Sewer Rats.)

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