Not sure it's so different. Here's from an Obama's campaign digital head:

> Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/03/19/why-are...

Whereas team Obama didn't just get friends of friends, they got everyone regardless of their privacy settings or apps in use?

edit: adding original source for the quote instead of forbes:

https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568130117459975