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People might be for it if they discover political candidates can outsource social media campaigns to lower-wage countries, > And with the rise of social media,
by rhaksw 4y ago
People might be for it if they discover political candidates can outsource social media campaigns to lower-wage countries,
> And with the rise of social media, the Philippines has become a capital for a new breed of digital era manipulation. I meet with "P"...
> ... By the age of twenty, he claims he had fifteen million followers across all platforms. The modest middle-class boy from the provinces could suddenly afford his own condo in a Manila skyscraper.
> ... He pitched his approach to several parties but the only candidate who would take P on was Rodrigo Duterte, an outsider who looked to social media as a new, cheap route to victory.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/wo5tDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT15 https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/wo5tDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gb...
- dragonwriter 4y ago> People might be for it if they discover political candidates can outsource social media campaigns to lower-wage countries, You think Americans are only unconcerned about campaign financing because they think they are going to get a job from the out of control spending?
- rhaksw 4y agoSuch approved foreign involvement in our elections may raise some eyebrows. It certainly did raise mine when I read it. I knew about the IRA and Cambridge Analytica, and I didn't realize it had become a veritable industry in the Philippines.