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interesting that the company that has the most viewed ads for 2024[1] ("FORCE VECTOR COMMUNICATIONS") has a total of 3 matches when you search for them[2] [1] https://adstransparency.google.com/political?region=US&topic... [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22force+vector+communicatio...
Kudos to Google. We also need this for all the non-Google outlets.
Here's the equivalent from Meta: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=active&a...
https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=active&a...
They also have an aggregate report page. It doesn't seem possible to break it down by ad category, but looks like the most recent big spenders are all political ads:
In Norway it's forbidden with political ads on TV . Reasoning being that live images can have a huge influence, while also possibly being inflammatory and dumb down the debate. But main reason mainly is that it would give those with enough money to afford these "expensive tv ads" a leg up. However, this law hasn't been updated in decades. So it's still only TV ads that's illegal. So it feels like a quite arbitrary re…
Kind of new in the US, you can't stop people in the US from spending money on ads that amplify there speech. [1] Political spending is regulated, but we now have "political action committees" that can support candidates but can't coordinate with them. They can accept money from anyone in any amounts. Its brought tons of money from wealthy doners into polics in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._…
interesting that the company that has the most viewed ads for 2024[1] ("FORCE VECTOR COMMUNICATIONS") has a total of 3 matches when you search for them[2] [1] https://adstransparency.google.com/political?region=US&topic... [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22force+vector+communicatio...
The Citizens United vs FEC ruling is a sham.
It's fascinating. I'm at home and my pi-hole ad-blocking rules apparently trigger for that page, so although I can see the titles, all the images just fail to load.
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Population being split is what Putin and other directorship wants. Ever heard about Philippe de Macédoine "divide and conquer" ? They are doing the same in Europe, because divided we wouldn't be able to merge our force and push them back. If half of America is for helping Ukraine and half against, it makes it even tougher to do anything. Not enough and people get mad about Ukrainian dying, too much and people get mad…
>Population being split is what Putin and other directorship wants. Have you for a second give some though to the fact that it might be what the people want? If a candidate is not representing the needs of a large demographic, why would they get supported in return?Just to not leave the country dividend? lol Maybe those candidates should better aid the population they claim to serve if they don't want the country div…
I'd argue USA is in the first case, 'either you're with me or against me'. That's a fundamentally retarded way of thinking, think middle age with its religion war, and end up blocking any possible social progress. Thats what Putin and other dictator want.
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One more interesting update: AMA AL PROMIJO was established in care of an individual named Eric Sapp. Some googling landed me on an org’s site named Public Democracy. One of the other team members at the company[0] is the person named in care of one of the NORTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER CORPS. Seems we have some glue here! Time to learn more about this Public Democracy thing to try to figure out their angle. [0] https://ww…
Here's the website that has info about the program, and lists AMA AL PROMIJO as a 'partner': https://www.publicdemocracyamerica.org/better-angels-program All these orgs are taking advantage of the 'Google Grants' program, which provides up to $10,000 per month in free search advertising for registered nonprofits. $120,000/yr in free ads for the cost of registering a nonprofit seems like a no-brainer for spreading a m…
How widespread / prevalent is this? Does Google care? Is Google incentivized to not care? Is it such a small drop in the bucket that it's basically irrelevant (and boring)?
I wonder if we'd see the same on other ad platforms like Facebook.
If the spend figure is right the difference between the money spent in the USA and UK is larger than I expected. Highest weekly spend in the UK is just under £1M (Dec 2019) while in the US it’s £50M (Oct 2024). That’s 10 times more spending with only 5 times the population.
Views: 8-9k
Total spent: $14-15k
This country is doomed.
According to the site, ad targeting is allowed based on gender and age, but not race or religion, for example. All four of those categories were previously used to restrict voting and are now legally protected from voting discrimination. Why allow targeting some of them but not all? Either all should be disallowed (for the same reason that race, religion, etc are), or all should be allowed (on the reasoning that this…
Easy: as already mentioned advertisers love targeting. On the other hand, considering the current sentiment in society allowing gender and age as targeting category causes much less of an outcry (or even shitstorm) than race and religion. So, to balance earning vs risk for reputation damage the first two categories are allowed for advertising targeting while the latter two are not.