By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--April 10, 2018
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“In a subsection of the prepared statement titled “What Happened,” Zuckerberg details efforts made in 2007 to allow apps to access information from friends of users. “In 2007, we launched the Facebook Platform with the vision that more apps should be social. Your calendar should be able to show your friends’ birthdays, your maps should show where your friends live, and your address book should show their pictures. To do this, we enabled people to log into apps and share who their friends were and some information about them.” “The very next line skips to 2013, the creation of a personality quiz app and the subsequent use of personal data collected through that app by Cambridge Analytica. Nothing that happened from 2008 to 2012 is mentioned. (Emphasis CFP’s)
“But last month, former Obama campaign staffer Carol Davidsen gave some insight into what was happening in the interim. “Although Cambridge Analytica was not specifically involved, there was a significant degree of data-mining occurring under Facebook’s nose.Good thing no major politician or data firm did any mining during those years or this would all seem slightly partisan and incomplete.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 9, 2018They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.
— Carol Davidsen (@cld276) March 19, 2018
“In addition to his prepared statement, Zuckerberg is expected to answer questions about Russian meddling in the 2016 election and how to best fight future similar efforts on the part of foreign actors.” (Daily Caller) “How to best fight future similar efforts on the part of foreign actors” as answered by Mark Zuckerberg will be: “Donald Trump and Cambridge Analytica helped Russia steal the election”.Count on that talking point being carried away from today and tomorrow’s Zuckerberg ‘testimony’. Meanwhile, some writers seem to think the Facebook brouhaha is just “silly”. “Silly, it is not. Deadly it is. Facebook’s testimony to Congress is a carefully organized political ploy.
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