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April 3, 2018

Title: Facebook Favors
Topic: Facebook Favored Obama With Your Data

Discussed by Hans von Spakovsky
with The Heritage Foundation (www.Heritage.org)

Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Both the 2012 Obama Campaign and 2016 Trump Campaign acquired information from Facebook in order to target ads to a specific demographic. However, one did so illegally and the other did legally.

Hans von Spakovsky is a Senior Fellow with The Heritage Foundation. He recently wrote an op-ed for FoxNews entitled “Did Facebook’s ‘Favors’ for the Obama Campaign Constitute a Violation of Federal Law?”.  Get the scoop here!

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Did Facebook favor the 2012 Obama Campaign? If so, were their actions against any Federal Law?

In contrast, how did the 2016 Trump Campaign obtain information from Facebook? Were their actions illegal?

Does Facebook sell information to marketers? Is this how the Trump Campaign received their information about Facebook users?

Can corporations or small business offer “favors” to political campaigns, such as offering data from websites?

How is this different from a monetary contribution to a political campaign?

What is the Federal Election Commission?

Is the MSM reporting on this story? HINT: Nope!

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