Your source supports the notion that the counter-protests were better attended, but I can't see how it supports your assertion that they outdid the protests for criminal activity.

Not really, I suppose you aren't familiar with AI alignment.

Why?

Usually, even the generally available facts are a lot better than most people's understandings of the situation. For example, most people seem to think that this scandal proved that Facebook sell their user data, whereas it actually is alleged that CA took advantage of the well-documented public API that Facebook used to have, where any app vendor could download data on friends of friends who had given permissions to the app.

If you have specific questions, I would be happy to point you in the right direction.

Cambridge Analytica were accused of taking data mainly on what pages users 'Liked' - not private messages or news feed. (Unless you have a source?)

Obama campaign boasted about having access to the entire friends network. In other words, they know who each person was and what the connections between them were. Facebook openly said that they helped the Obama campaign get and utilise 100% of the friends network data on Facebook.

This short sentence contains irony.