Showing posts with label advertisements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advertisements. Show all posts
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Under constant attack from the Parkland students and pro-gun law advocates, the NRA aggressively increases its advertising.Update!

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Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune :   Immediately after the horror of the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoo...
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Monday, February 26, 2018

How Facebook's advertising algorithm allowed the Trump campaign (And the Russians) reach far more people, for far less money.

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Courtesy of Wired :   Like many things at Facebook, the ads auction is a version of something Google built first. As on Google, Facebook...
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Monday, January 29, 2018

The Koch brothers are planning to throw massive amounts of money at the 2018 midterms.

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Courtesy of Axios : The Koch network will spend 60% more on the 2018 cycle than it did on the 2016 presidential election, the largest mi...
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Friday, November 24, 2017

Facebook is now going to let you find out if you were manipulated by Russian propaganda. Spoiler alert: You probably were.

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Courtesy of Bloomberg :   Facebook Inc. will show people which Russian propaganda pages or accounts they’ve followed and liked on the so...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

One third of Americans received Russian backed content on their Facebook feed during the 2016 election cycle.

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Courtesy of NBC News :   An estimated 126 million Americans, roughly one-third of the nation’s population, received Russian-backed conte...
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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Twitter announces that it will now clearly identify tweets supporting candidates and utilize stronger penalties for those who misuse the social media platform.

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Courtesy of CNBC :   As political pressure mounts on social media companies to say where ads are coming from, Twitter will reveal more i...
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Sunday, October 22, 2017

Donald Trump minimizes the impact that the Russian ads had in helping him to win, and claims that Facebook was really supporting Hillary Clinton.

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Keep hearing about "tiny" amount of money spent on Facebook ads. What about the billions of dollars of Fake News on CNN, ABC, NB...
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Friday, October 20, 2017

John McCain first Republican to sign onto Democratic bill to make Facebook ads more transparent.

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Courtesy of Politico : Sen. John McCain has become the first Republican to sign on to a draft bill from Democrats Amy Klobuchar and Mark...
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Friday, October 13, 2017

Facebook "corrects bug" which scrubs data from the internet that allowed investigators to learn ads bought by the Russians reached far more Americans than previously reported by the company.

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Courtesy of WaPo :   Social media analyst Jonathan Albright got a call from Facebook the day after he published research last week showi...
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Tuesday, October 03, 2017

According to Facebook as many as ten million people saw those Russia linked ads.

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Courtesy of Time Magazine :   Facebook said that the 3,000 Russia-linked advertisements it turned over to congressional investigators on...
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Monday, September 25, 2017

Ten days after the election President Obama warned Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook's extensive involvement.

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Hey you little shit, you just helped to send a White Nationalist to the White House. Courtesy of WaPo :   Nine days after Facebook chi...
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Saturday, September 16, 2017

Facebook has handed over detailed records of the Russian ad buys to Robert Mueller. Far more info than they gave to Congress.Update!

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Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal :   Facebook Inc. has handed over to special counsel Robert Mueller detailed records about the Russi...
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Monday, September 11, 2017

So, do you want to see some of those batshit crazy ads the Russians bought on Facebook. You know you do, don't even try to deny it.

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Courtesy of The Daily Beast : That community, called SecuredBorders, positioned itself as the work of conservative Americans concerned a...
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Sunday, September 10, 2017

Unable to defeat Obamacare in the Senate Donald Trump is just going to starve it to death instead.

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Courtesy of Vox : The Trump administration has let funding for Obamacare’s $63 million in-person outreach program lapse, leading to layo...
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Thursday, September 07, 2017

Facebook sold $100,000 worth of ad space to a Russian troll farm in 2015 and 2016 so that they could influence our elections. Isn't Facebook great?

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Courtesy of WaPo :   Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that the social network has discovered that ...
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Sunday, March 26, 2017

Pre-purchased conservative TV ads showed up celebrating the repeal of Obamacare. Only problem, the Republicans failed to make that happen.

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Courtesy of NPR :   Some basketball viewers on Friday night were subjected to television commercials that were guilty of peddling some a...
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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Google to revamp advertising policies after boycott over ads placed on controversial You Tube videos.

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Courtesy of The Guardian :   Google has promised a wide-ranging overhaul of its advertising policies in response to a growing boycott of...
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Monday, February 13, 2017

John Oliver comes up with perfect way to troll, and educate, Donald Trump.

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Courtesy of NBC News :   Comedian John Oliver's politically-charged HBO series "Last Week Tonight" returned to the airwave...
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Thursday, December 01, 2016

Another advertiser bails on Breitbart due to hate speech.

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Courtesy of Bloomberg : Kellogg Co. is pulling its ads from the website Breitbart News, the right-wing news organization whose former ch...
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Saturday, October 22, 2016

The new Hillary Clinton ad featuring Khizr Khan is brutal!

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Courtesy of CNN : An emotional Khizr Khan asks Donald Trump in a new Clinton campaign ad whether his son, a US solider who was killed in...
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