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Re:New York governor orders probe into Facebook access to da... by CamperBob2 on Friday February 22, 2019 @09:30PM (#19231211)
It was just an ad tech company with a few political clients and some snake oil regarding psychographics.

Your snake oil evidently outperformed the best modern medicine. So, congratulations for that, I guess.

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Re:New York governor orders probe into Facebook access to da... by East-Link on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:48AM (#19232554)
Our psychographics were

- ineffective (no change in effectiveness if you randomise which "personality" sees which ad)

- never based on Facebook data during my time of employment there -- early 2016 onwards

- not used in the USA presidential election of 2016

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