political advertising
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Trump Facebook Ads With ‘Real People’ Actually Feature U.S. Political Operatives
U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is currently running Facebook ads with “real people” who support the president. And while it’s accurate to say these people are “real” in the sense that they’re human beings and not robots from the TV show Westworld, they’re not just average people off the street. Many are political operatives.
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Jack Dorsey Takes Obvious Opportunity To Backstab Facebook With Twitter Political Ad Ban
Twitter on Wednesday announced a blanket ban on all political and issue-based advertising across its site, with CEO Jack Dorsey stating in a series of tweets that the company had decided to do so because “paying for reach” forces “highly optimised and targeted political messages on people.”