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Zuckerberg’s power to hurt Trump
Axios ^ | November 2, 2019 | Mike Allen and Sara Fischer

Posted on 11/02/2019 7:31:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Top Republicans are privately worried about a new threat to President Trump’s campaign: the possibility of Facebook pulling a Twitter and banning political ads.

Why it matters: Facebook says it won't, but future regulatory pressure could change that. If Facebook were to ban — or even limit — ads, it could upend Trump’s fundraising and re-election plan, GOP officials tell Axios.

Trump relies heavily — much more so than Democrats — on targeted Facebook ads to shape views and raise money. Red flag: Kara Swisher, of Recode, the super plugged-in tech writer, predicted on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that Mark Zuckerberg will ultimately buckle on allowing demonstrably false political adds on Facebook: "He's going to change his mind — 100% ... [H]e's done it before."

Twitter this week announced a ban on political and advocacy ads. ("Platforms give pols a free pass to lie," by Scott Rosenberg)

Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale ridiculed the decision ("yet another attempt by the left to silence Trump and conservatives"), signaling the wicked backlash that would hit Zuckerberg.

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; facebook; fakebook; fakenews; internet; socialmedia; tds; technotyranny; zuckerberg
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1 posted on 11/02/2019 7:31:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This would be totally illegal. It would be a violation of free speech rights AND election interference.


2 posted on 11/02/2019 7:34:39 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course we know that this will happen.


3 posted on 11/02/2019 7:39:42 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: tbw2

This is how the Left plans to negate Trump’s YUGE money advantage.


4 posted on 11/02/2019 7:40:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Clinton Crime Family has been making veiled threats to him the last couple days. He isn’t going to risk ending up like Epstein.


5 posted on 11/02/2019 7:44:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: tbw2

Well dems are right now conducting super double secret meeting with those who they want to use to destroy Trump with.

After the whole mueller thing.

So illegal isn’t a problem with them.


6 posted on 11/02/2019 7:48:42 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: kiryandil

True Americans who love their country elected Trump. Not Twitter. Trumps people could this web site, couldn’t they?


7 posted on 11/02/2019 7:54:40 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Facebook ads are bad idea for anybody. Political campaigns especially but for any corporate entity.

You can COMMENT on ads and don’t even have to subscribe to the sponsor’s page to do so. So there are a lot of negative comments and angry or sad emojis associated with the ads from some sponsors.

Also you can block all ads from a specific sponsor (so you paid for the exposure and going forward all of your content will be blocked from someone you were trying to reach).


8 posted on 11/02/2019 7:58:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: a fool in paradise
You can COMMENT on ads and don’t even have to subscribe to the sponsor’s page to do so. So there are a lot of negative comments and angry or sad emojis associated with the ads from some sponsors.

Any reaction dramatically increases the reach of each ad as that reaction would go over the entire newsfeed of each person that does it - allowing countless thousands of additional people to see the ad.

9 posted on 11/02/2019 8:01:42 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: jmacusa
True Americans who love their country elected Trump. Not Twitter. Trumps people could this web site, couldn’t they?

How do you think he got his message to these people in order to go around the traditional media and search engines that are biased against him?

There were numerous articles detailing how Trump had a huge social media advantage to reach his supporters and how this was putting the Dems at a huge disadvantage. So Twitter pulled the plug, and now the Democrats are putting enormous pressure on Zuckerberg to do the same with Facebook. They are trying to take this away from him so they can be in control of the message.

10 posted on 11/02/2019 8:04:25 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

You have to pay for that exposure. A $5 ad buy isn’t going to get as many people as a $50 ad buy.

Postings go viral. Ads only report back the level of interaction but don’t go viral without a bigger ad buy.


11 posted on 11/02/2019 8:04:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yeah, as someone that has purchased ads for an organization I can tell you that is not true.


12 posted on 11/02/2019 8:06:51 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When the liberal press couldn’t overcome Rush Limbaugh, they gave him the silent mode. It’s logical they would do the same to Trump.


13 posted on 11/02/2019 8:12:00 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: a fool in paradise

Let me expand on that last post.

It is correct that more people will in fact see a $50.00 ad vs. a $5.00 ad organically from the paid spots appearing on Facebook newsfeeds, but appearances of the same ad posting appearing on other newsfeeds as a result of people liking, sharing, commenting, etc. do not result in additional charges or cause your ad by to be wiped out by those views from the others doing that.


14 posted on 11/02/2019 8:13:48 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: jmacusa

“Trumps people could this web site, couldn’t they?” What does that mean?


15 posted on 11/02/2019 8:14:26 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: a fool in paradise
Let me expand on that last post.

It is correct that more people will in fact see a $50.00 ad vs. a $5.00 ad organically from the paid spots appearing on Facebook newsfeeds, but appearances of the same ad posting appearing on other newsfeeds as a result of people liking, sharing, commenting, etc. do not result in additional charges or cause your ad by to be wiped out buy those views from the others doing that.

16 posted on 11/02/2019 8:14:49 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Eliminate ‘sharing” and your ad doesn’t trend the same.

And angry isn’t a positive response to an ad.


17 posted on 11/02/2019 8:15:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: BenLurkin
The Clinton Crime Family has been making veiled threats to him the last couple days. He isn’t going to risk ending up like Epstein.

You know they would like to do that.

18 posted on 11/02/2019 8:29:20 PM PDT by Mark17 (Once saved, always saved. I do not care if some do not like that. It will NEVER be my problem)
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To: Fungi

I meant to ask Trump re-election team could come here and post, couldn’t they?


19 posted on 11/02/2019 8:34:08 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trump doesn't need to advertise on Facebook or Twitter this time around.

He has RALLIES. That's the biggest advertising there is, simply rent out an arena and have the media report on it.

No Trump supporter is going to be swayed by Democrat ads in the MSM that they don't watch anyway.

If Twitter and Facebook want to pass up millions of dollars in advertising, that's their own damn fault. It's a stupid decision and more butt-hurt from the Dems because the DNC is deep in debt and can't compete with Trump on fundraising.

20 posted on 11/02/2019 8:35:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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