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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Facebook Helped Elect Trump
https://politicalwire.com/2017/10/06/facebook-helped-elect-trump/"SNIP...........
Trump campaign operative Brad Parscale told CBS News that Facebook was the crucial tool that helped elect Donald Trump: Twitter is how Trump talked to the people, Facebook was going to be how he won.
Parscale says the campaign would average 50-60,000 different ad versions every day, some days peaking at 100,000 separate iterations changing design, colors, backgrounds and words all in an effort to refine ads and engage users.
Also interesting: Parscale received help utilizing Facebooks technology from Facebook employees provided by the company who showed up for work to his office multiple days a week.
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How Facebook Helped Elect Trump (Original Post)
applegrove
Oct 2017
OP
"People in the Clinton campaign confirmed that the offer was made and turned down."
PoliticAverse
Oct 2017
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MFM008
(19,837 posts)1. They did and
Zuckerb KNOWS they did.
ALL ABOUT
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. And now we will see where this leads to down the road.
Rules will not be written to prevent this from happening again any time soon. We Dems are on the outside looking in and after all,it is Party before Country for the GOP and their operatives.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)3. Zuckerberg took payment in Rubles. We're being whipped in the first Cyber War.
msongs
(67,502 posts)4. too bad democrats couldnt figure out how to use facebook to win eh? nt
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)5. "People in the Clinton campaign confirmed that the offer was made and turned down."
From the CBS News article...
Lesley Stahl: Did Hillary's campaign have someone embedded
Brad Parscale: I had heard that they didn't accept any of their offers.
Lesley Stahl: So you're saying Facebook and the others offered an embed, and they said no.
Brad Parscale: That's what I've heard.
People in the Clinton campaign confirmed that the offer was made and turned down.
Brad Parscale: I had heard that they didn't accept any of their offers.
Lesley Stahl: So you're saying Facebook and the others offered an embed, and they said no.
Brad Parscale: That's what I've heard.
People in the Clinton campaign confirmed that the offer was made and turned down.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-embeds-russia-and-the-trump-campaigns-secret-weapon/