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> The documents reveal a much clearer idea of what actually happened in the 2016 US presidential election, which has a huge bearing on what will happen in 2020. It’s the same people involved who we know are building on these same techniques,” she said

I m confused, were the Democrats being accused of using manipulative social media ad campaigns in 2016?

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Not sure, but they definitely did it in 2012, back when it was considered cool and forward-looking, to the point of bragging about it in interviews[0].

I don’t blame them for doing it at all, but i definitely feel uneasy about a lot of democrats blaming 2016 elections on cambridge analytica and acting like their party didn’t do it themselves, while also bragging about it publicly.

Note: I neither support nor am affiliated with the republican party whatsoever. I also don’t think that cambridge analytica scandal affected the 2016 election outcome in any significant way.

0. https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-...

Do you accuse people of the obvious a lot? Because manipulative ads seem to be the lingua franca of us politics.

Not accusing anyone

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