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This answer ignores some known details of the story. Cambridge Analytica didn't just buy targeted ads from Facebook. They used a sockpuppet to release a fake "take a personality profile" app, which then allowed them to gather tons of data against the Facebook terms of use.

The CEO of Cambridge Analytica has also been recorded telling a (fake) potential client that they routinely blackmail people using prostitutes and who knows what else.

So unless you can show that Clinton's campaign was doing the same things, your claim is a false equivalence.




I find it hard to believe that the American public is up in arms about someone violating Facebook's terms of use.




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