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reaching 126 million people on Facebook So, that's like a 500 dollar budget? Somewhere in that range? Partisan content was presented to targeted groups in on
by mynameishere 8y ago
reaching 126 million people on Facebook
So, that's like a 500 dollar budget? Somewhere in that range?
Partisan content was presented to targeted groups
in on-brand ways, such as a meme featuring Jesus in a Trump campaign hat on an account that targeted Christians
It's an unbelievably tacky picture of Jesus wearing a red MAGA hat. Yeah, that's why people voted for him. I mean, yeah. The multi-million dollar ad campaigns from Clinton had nothing on crap sourced from 4chan.
If you watch the election coverage from 2016, they were going on about Russia minutes after Trump clinched it. Minutes. All together. And this shit is still going on. I was trapped in Atlanta airport shortly after the election and CNN had 4 hours of shameless Russia Russia Russia propaganda. And they're still at it. Joe McCarthy would have died of shame before carrying on like this.
Anyone interested in how propaganda really works needs to consider the top down, nationwide, nonstop campaign to destroy the president. Even if you hate the guy, consider just how much power is being exerted to negate an election. It's interesting if you look at this--because it's actual power, unlike silly two-bit posts on Facebook.
That same power could plausibly be turned in the opposite direction, and the left will be utterly staggered, like fish out of water.
- gdulli 8y ago> If you watch the election coverage from 2016, they were going on about Russia minutes after Trump clinched it. Russian influence was being discussed and warned about well before the election.
- deepakhj 8y agoThe special counsel, NY Attorney General, SDNY and Eastern Virginia courts, etc are all following the rule of law. Hilary Clinton's foundation and Benghazi investigation went on for how long and turned up zilch.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> If you watch the election coverage from 2016, they were going on about Russia minutes after Trump clinched it. Months before. Here's POLITICO, 7 months before the election: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-2016-russia-today-rt-kremlin-media-vladimir-putin-213833 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump... Heck, here's the Sydney Morning Herald covering it nearly 5 months before the election—the Russian involvement was world news well before the election: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trumpputin-russias-information-war-meets-the-us-election-20160609-gpf4sm.html https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trumpputin-russia... The weird idea that Russian involvement was something invented after the election as an excuse for the result is...inconsistent with the easily verified facts.