Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Harris voters. A multi-pronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed… www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... - ThreadSky

drericding.bsky.social • 108 days ago

Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Harris voters. A multi-pronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/15/republican-ads-false-flag/

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andreavie.bsky.social•108 days ago

Microtargeting with stratetic disinformation in pre-election ads in social media is probably one of the biggest threats to democratic societies. Manipulating was never so easy. (For my advertising-students i like to do a new ad campaign (live), as soon as I pic my audience in META, ... 1/2

andreavie.bsky.social•108 days ago

2/2 .. (I pick the university + 1km around, people between 18 and 25, people who moved to a new city recently..) they slowly realise, that they are the target of my ad...

aimshunt06.bsky.social•108 days ago

📌

bathshebablue.bsky.social•108 days ago

Reminiscent of Russia’s disinformation efforts in 2016 on Facebook.

codemanbroo.bsky.social•107 days ago

We need some brilliant youngsters in there just to keep up, no holds barred!

sosaysshelze.bsky.social•108 days ago

SMH

chris-white.bsky.social•108 days ago

Guaranteed it will come to light in years from now that #Trump win was achieved by underhanded actions.
Trump was going to jail if he lost. Don't believe he wasn't prepared to do anything & everything to win
Far too many things went his way.
Too good to be true.
#TrumpCheated

drericding.bsky.social•108 days ago

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 PA, meanwhile, saw ads from the same group with the opposite message: Harris wanted to stop arms shipments to Israel.

archeo-peterix.bsky.social•108 days ago

Just Republicunts doing Republicunt shit.

thoughtcriminal.bsky.social•108 days ago

We are living in two different worlds. Between Fox News and the tribalism that the Internet so easily fosters (for both sides), it’s hard to fix things when we no longer have a common reference of reality.

resistordietrying.bsky.social•108 days ago

it can't go on forever. eventually irreconcilable differences lead to war or similar when on a large enough scale. especially when one side is incapable of being reasoned with. i'd barely even consider them sentient.

seanfl50.bsky.social•107 days ago

Divide and rule. Where have we seen that before?

tweetmommybop.bsky.social•108 days ago

Hey Eric!! It’s MommaT. Let’s get ready to roll come next issue and we know it’s coming.

See you in the follows

mumsymcgillicutty.bsky.social•108 days ago

This was so infuriating. There was so much election interference and voter suppression.

thebaroness.bsky.social•108 days ago

Yeah, we know.

It astonishes me how perspicacious normal Americans are and how they can smell a rat wearing rose perfume a mile away but it takes the media, like, six months to catch up.

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