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pnwmom

(109,562 posts)
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 07:55 PM Nov 15

How team Trump/Musk spent $45 million on market tested fake ads

Muslims in Michigan began seeing pro-Israel ads this fall praising Vice President Kamala Harris for marrying a Jewish man and backing the Jewish state. Jews in Pennsylvania, meanwhile, saw ads from the same group with the opposite message: Harris wanted to stop U.S. arms shipments to Israel.

Another group promoted “Kamala’s bold progressive agenda” to conservative-leaning Donald Trump voters, while a third filled the phones of young liberals with videos about how Harris had abandoned the progressive dream. Black voters in North Carolina were told Democrats wanted to take away their menthol cigarettes, while working-class White men in the Midwest were warned that Harris would support quotas for minorities and deny them Zyn nicotine pouches.

What voters had no way of knowing at the time was that all of the ads were part of a single, $45 million effort created by political advisers to Tesla founder Elon Musk who had previously worked on the presidential campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), according to a presentation about the group’s efforts obtained by The Washington Post.

The project, funded with anonymous donations, micro-targeted messages across the battleground states, often with ads that appeared to be something they were not — a tactic the organizers sometimes referred to internally as “false positives.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/15/republican-ads-false-flag/
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How team Trump/Musk spent $45 million on market tested fake ads (Original Post) pnwmom Nov 15 OP
there needs to be an investigation on this NJCher Nov 15 #1
Mail fraud? Blue Full Moon Nov 15 #2

NJCher

(37,883 posts)
1. there needs to be an investigation on this
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 08:32 PM
Nov 15

It is beyond the pale.

Only Google removed one ad. Facebook again behaved unethically.

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