There are no crying children, no victims, no poor seniors or struggling patients. But this ad is one of the most brutal I've ever seen. Despite the manifest vileness of its target, Paul Gosar, it is restrained, measured, straightforward, and you should stick with it to the end.
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4:36 pm Fri
Sep 21, 2018
Startlingly simple, brutal political ad
If you tell Facebook you're a senator looking to buy political ads, they just take your word for it
Vice decided to test out Facebook's commitment to positively identifying the people and organizations behind political ads, so they applied for clearance to buy ads in the names of ever sitting US Senator, showing no proof, and Facebook granted permission in each case.
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Find out who's manipulating you through Facebook political ads with ProPublica's free tool
“There’s information about political advertising—including the choices about how to target ads to you instead of someone else—that’s not in Facebook’s Ad Archive,” says ProPublica’s Jeremy Merrill. “It can only be exposed if you participate in this project with ProPublica, ABC and our other awesome partners.”
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A perfect political ad (Video)
I love firemen! I love brotherhoods! I love gay marriage! This ad has everything!
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Learn MySQL painlessly with this online master class
What do Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google all have in common? Somewhere in their framework, they all use MySQL, that most versatile (and free!) of database management systems. And they’re not alone. If your company or the one you’d like to work for wrangles data (and who doesn’t?), they’re going to need someone with a […]
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There’s a reason you’re hearing about the gig economy in every other business story these days. More than ever, people are finding income from more than one source. And if you find the right one, a side hustle can do more than just pad your pockets – it can allow you to finally get paid […]
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High-def cameras are available to anyone and for much less than they were just a decade ago. Even the phones in our pockets can be used to shoot and edit short films. It’s never been easier to be a filmmaker, providing you have the technique. Enter the Film & Cinematography Mastery Bundle, an online boot […]
