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by sillysaurusx 2356 days ago
If the data you're referring to didn't come from a company like CA, how did the campaign get access to it?
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Voter registration information is public, also both parties have huge, manually curated lists that they sell access to. But giving FB a seed audience of 10000 voters and asking them to find the 100mil most similar people works better a lot of the time. The effectiveness of FB's machine learning on this stuff would blow your mind.