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14 votes
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The daisy ad and an appeal to fear
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How do we avoid future authoritarians? Winning back the working class is key.
16 votes -
Why do political ads love to feature girls instead of women? Defiant young girls have become a political symbol in a country that fears grown women.
15 votes -
Ren - Crucify Your Culture (2020)
9 votes -
Transgender activist Sarah McBride wins Delaware state Senate primary, putting her on track to be the US's highest-ranking openly transgender elected official
26 votes -
Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to two NYU researchers, demanding that they shut down their research into political ads and disinformation on FB’s platform
30 votes -
Inside the Republican plot for permanent minority rule
25 votes -
Terror inquiry after teacher beheaded near Paris
13 votes -
History of US political parties (part 1)
5 votes -
Sensory overload and annals of lying
3 votes -
FiveThirtyEight Senate forecast
30 votes -
Effective political giving
11 votes -
The small effects of political advertising are small regardless of context, message, sender, or receiver
6 votes -
Joe Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs
8 votes -
Reddit CEO defends their intention to run Trump ads ahead of election, outlines their plans to move comments on ads into subreddits
51 votes -
The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 million per week on Facebook ads, almost assuredly making it the platform's largest advertiser
@Judd Legum: The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 MILLION PER WEEK on Facebook That's a $280 million annual rate.The Trump campaign is almost certainly Facebook's largest advertiser In 2019, Home Depot was the largest advertiser, spending $178.5 million pic.twitter.com/4BjWknL73H
13 votes -
With Obama saying "the filibuster is a 'Jim Crow relic' ”, it’s looking more and more like Democrats will abolish the filibuster if they win back the Senate
21 votes -
Actually, can we tell which US states will be swing states in the election?
13 votes -
What happens when Hobbesian logic takes over discourse about protest – and why we should resist it
4 votes -
'Facebook doesn't care': Activists say accounts removed despite Mark Zuckerberg's free-speech stance
8 votes -
What it means to be liberal
8 votes -
How a leftist cartoonist’s college campus drawing nearly became a far-right meme
6 votes -
Pakistani journalist living in exile in Sweden who had been missing since March has been found dead, police have said
7 votes -
Google to require all advertisers to pass identity verification process
12 votes -
Politics and the beautiful soul
6 votes -
Noam Chomsky: Bernie Sanders campaign didn’t fail. It energized millions and shifted US politics.
21 votes -
A prominent Pakistani journalist, who fled the country after receiving death threats, has gone missing in Sweden where he had been granted political asylum
4 votes -
Living without a living wage: At the ever-growing bottom of the American economy, a low-wage worker becomes a minimum-wage activist
10 votes -
The atlas of redistricting/gerrymandering by 538
10 votes -
What is the Senate filibuster and what would it take to remove it?
7 votes -
The Democrats do terribly in state elections and it really matters
6 votes -
Why the House of Representatives should be far bigger
13 votes -
History is marching
3 votes -
Joe Biden's campaign has released an ad attacking Pete Buttigieg's record and experience
14 votes -
An unsettling new theory: There is no "swing voter"
28 votes -
A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
12 votes -
Chinese embassy to Denmark wants Jyllands-Posten to apologize for publishing a drawing that depicts China's flag with virus symbols instead of five stars
11 votes -
Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
7 votes -
Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting Australian government's bushfire response
Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting government's bushfire response Here's the advertisement itself: https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1213330419044638722 For the non-Aussies,...
Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting government's bushfire response
Here's the advertisement itself: https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1213330419044638722
For the non-Aussies, and for the Aussies who aren't political tragics like me... the reason everyone's up in arms is that this video has been released by the Liberal Party, not by the Australian government. We can tell by the "Authorised by" statement in the final frame. Government information comes with the Commonwealth coat of arms and says "Authorised by the Australian Government, Canberra". Party political advertisements have to be "authorised by" someone within the political party. In other words, this is a political ad, not a government press release. The Liberal Party (not the government!) is promoting itself on the basis of what the government is doing for the bushfires.
Scott Morrison has already been an utter failure during this crisis. He went on holiday after the fires started. He's done as little as possible since he returned. And people have noticed. People have abused him when he turned up to visit their town. People have literally refused to shake his hand (but he grabs their hands and shakes them anyway!).
But, despite all this wrong-footedness, this new advertisement is the most tone-deaf thing he's done (so far!). It reflects his background in marketing. Everything's a message for him. Unfortunately for him, the message here is "I'm using your suffering to promote myself".
Scott Morrison has fucked up yet again.
11 votes -
How the Republican party went from Lincoln to Trump
8 votes -
Investigation prior to UK General Election finds 88% of Tory social media ads misleading compared to 0% for Labour
12 votes -
UK General election 2019: Ads are 'indecent, dishonest and untruthful'
9 votes -
CNN treats politics like a drama, and it's making us all less informed
35 votes -
How the right’s radical thinktanks reshaped the UK Conservative party
5 votes -
Google updates their political advertising policies, limits targeting capabilities, and expands which ads are covered by their transparency report
14 votes -
How activists are getting around Iran’s internet blackout
6 votes -
Smart TVs collect data for political-advertising use
16 votes -
Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy
6 votes -
The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users
12 votes