Techmeme Summary: <i>Nancy Scola / Politico: Study: interviews with tech staffers show how Facebook, Twitter, and Google helped Trump team as part of ad services; Clinton team declined embeds</i><p>Link to the peer-reviewed paper (as per article) from the article: <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2017.1364814" rel="nofollow">http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2017.13...</a><p>>> Quotes from the article:<p>While the paper does not detail the specific tasks Facebook carried out for Trump, it describes the sort of work the company did generally for 2016 candidates, including coordinating so-called dark posts that would appear only to selected users and identifying the kinds of photos that perform best on Facebook-owned Instagram. Twitter, meanwhile, would help candidates analyze the performances of their tweet-based fundraising pushes to recommend what moves the campaigns should make next. Google kept tabs on candidates' travels to recommend geographically targeted advertisements.<p>One unnamed tech company staffer is quoted in the study as saying, “Clinton viewed us as vendors rather than consultants.”<p>>> End of quotes