Obama Staffer: Facebook Knew Presidential Campaign Improperly Seized Data, Looked the Other Way

From the Daily Caller:

Facebook is embroiled in a political controversy over the manner its social data was utilized by the Trump campaign, but a former Obama campaign staffer argues the social media company has been allowing this type of behavior since at least 2012. 

The social media giant is being lambasted for failing to verify that data from an estimated 50 million users was deleted by the Steve Bannon-led firm, Cambridge Analytica. 

However, a former Obama campaign staffer has come forward to claim that Facebook turned a blind eye to the same issue in 2012. 

Carol Davidsen, former director of Obama for America’s Integration and Media Analytics, reveals the manner the Democratic presidential campaign was freely given access. 

Furthermore, she openly claims that Facebook gave the Obama campaigners a pass because of their political affiliation. 

“Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing,” Davidsen wrote on Twitter.