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Right. Exactly. And part of the propaganda, even today, is the US right trying to equate that somehow to Obama. They are relying on wan, sad whataboutism: "Wh
by mhneu 9y ago
Right. Exactly.
And part of the propaganda, even today, is the US right trying to equate that somehow to Obama. They are relying on wan, sad whataboutism: "When Obama used social media it was ok", "If Hillary had done this it would be ok".
No. The Trump campaign spent $100M on facebook ads. If they are so proud of those ads, let's see them. Release them. Let's see what they were telling people, and who they were targeting.
For normal political advertising on TV or even direct mail, it's hard to keep what you're doing a secret. For online targeted advertising, there is no such constraint.
We need to figure out a way to make all political advertising, and who it's targeted to, publicly disclosed. Sunshine helps.
- nopriorarrests 9y agoHmmm. Do you expect to find something very outrageous in those ads? If that would be the case, I think the press would have informed us already. It's not like they are very indulgent towards Teh Donald. And it's hard to spend $100M on facebook ads with some outrageous content without anyone noticing. Screenshots will be posted, shared, etc. So, I don't expect anything that wasn't said by Trump himself during his stump speeches and pre-election rallies. "Build Teh Wall", et al.
- not_that_noob 9y agoFB never revealed the content of these ads, so no one other than FB knows.
- uptown 9y agoThen they fixed a "bug" and removed content from their platform: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-10-13/facebook-removed-data-related-to-russian-ads-that-ran-during-2016-election https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-10-13/fac...