I've posted a quote from this article below that details how Obama's 2012 campaign did practically the same thing Cambridge Analytica is being accused of. [1]
So data mining Facebook has being going on for a while, except that the MSM and Silicon Valley supported it because it favored Obama.
The use of analytics does not make it practically the same thing. The same couple articles about the Obama campaign keep getting posted on all the CA post that hit the front page even after they're shown to be different.
So data mining Facebook has being going on for a while, except that the MSM and Silicon Valley supported it because it favored Obama.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campaig...