Why Are We Only Now Talking About Facebook And Elections?

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Carol Davidsen, who worked as the media director at Obama for America, claimed Obama campaign mined millions of people's information from Facebook
She said that Facebook was surprised at the ease with which they were able to 'suck out the whole social graph'
But the firm never tried to stop them when they realized what was doing, and even told them they'd made a special exception for them
They '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,' she tweeted
Davidsen said that she felt the project was 'creepy' - 'even though we played by the rules, and didn't do anything I felt was ugly, with the data'
Davidsen posted this in the wake of the uproar over Cambridge Analytica, and their mining of information for the Trump campaign