Facebook sent its employees to Donald Trumps campaign office to help with online marketing
Facebook is finally admitting that it allowed fake Russian accounts to run paid political ads during the election (link). Although Facebook says it’s now cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the revelation is bringing new attention to the relationship between Facebook Incorporated and the Donald Trump campaign. That relationship involved Facebook sending its employees to help out at the Trump campaign office in charge of digital marketing. The source of this information: one of Trump’s own people.
In an online BBC video, Theresa Hong, the Donald Trump campaign’s Digital Content Director, has made a number of startling confessions that she seems to think were bragging points. She’s revealed that Cambridge Analytica, the company suspected of having used voter data stolen by the Russian government to plot its online marketing strategy on Trump’s behalf, ran its operations out of the same offices where the Trump campaign itself was plotting its paid Facebook ad strategy. But the truly shocking revelation is who else she admits was in the building, which Trump’s people called “Project Alamo.”
The BBC interviewer asks Hong, “What were Facebook and Google and YouTube people actually doing here? Why were they here?” She responds by saying “They were helping us, you know. They were basically our hands-on partners as far as being able to utilize the platform as effectively as possible.” Shen then bragged “When you’re pumping in millions and millions of dollars to these social platforms, you’re going to get white glove treatment. So they would send people, you know, representatives to the Project Alamo to ensure that all our needs were being met.”
http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/facebook-employees-trump-office/4784/
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Then the one critical difference between the two campaigns is Russian involvement.
Btw, I googled and couldn't find any article confirming in house tech support for Clinton campaign. It would seem likely and obvious but I couldn't find it. May I ask for your source on this? Thanks.
but they may have been witting or unwitting accomplices to this "influence." That's a point of inquiry the special Counsel is pursuing. Thus far Facebook has not been completely cooperative. They're a private company so we're in tricky legal waters here. I'll await developments.
I absolutely agree with TPM's article that this influence was multi-faceted. The question is was it coordinated? Seems like it was. So the main issue is who coordinated? I suspect Russia did most of the grunt work, but someone helped them to focus and maximize the effect.
And that SOMEONE must be held accountable for this straight up treason. 
You may have seen this but if you didn't...
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I've not seen or heard any similar information about the Clinton campaign, that's why I asked for your source.
you do hear about THIS Drumpf/Russia/Facebook strategy. That seemed newsworthy enough for the BBC. I take it you have different journalistic standards.
And you know this by your common fucking sense again? Would you publish that statement in your newspaper, blog, letter to the editor, or even a comment thread on an internet forum without citing external sourcing?
(1) I'm impressed by your certainty about what and how I know things.
(2) Credibility of the clip is not dependent on number of views or posts. Do you have any evidence that counters the substance of the BBC report? If so, why not e-mail and enlighten them on their errors. They'd be grateful.
Well you got me there, I'll defer to your superior intellect and confess I'm not very bright. But that's precisely why I require independent verification. I have to work double hard to screen out eloquent bullshit. It's a curse!
I agree. So Dr Hobbitstein, unless you have more to add, I'll just say Peace...Out.
