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> This marketing company got credit for helping elect someone to the most powerful position on the planet, and somehow that worked out REALLY poorly for the mar
by kristianc 8y ago
> This marketing company got credit for helping elect someone to the most powerful position on the planet, and somehow that worked out REALLY poorly for the marketer. Who would've thought?
Blaming Facebook is a way of the media class and voters obsolving themselves of their part in the original sin of electing Trump.
It's a convenient fiction that Facebook swung the election, and it's one that if the Democrats have any aspirations of winning in 2020, they would do well to acknowledge.
I'm no fan of Facebook either. But however much Facebook is fined, that sin can't be purged. It's the voters that elected him, and the media that ensured that Trump was the story for much of 2016.
- Consultant32452 8y agoI'm going to really stretch credulity for a moment for my own amusement. In the wake of losing the 2016 election, it appears the Clinton campaign may have picked some poorly constructed Russian ads as a scapegoat. This rather arbitrary and somewhat random decision by some campaign worker may ultimately topple a multi billion dollar tech giant. And I wonder if the campaign worker who made the original suggestion to blame Russian ads at an otherwise standard/boring messaging meeting connects the two things.