FEC listings are public records, but audiences and context matter a lot. I've struggled to find a balance with this, calling attention to tech companies' political giving by citing FEC materials that contain employee names and (sometimes) home addresses. It's tricky.
The shareability makes a difference! An image like that can go viral in a way a linked FEC filing will not. That is why it was created.
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I don't think I disagree with that, I'm just not convinced that "possible virality" necessarily means "icky." Do you disagree with the text of his tweet? Isn't sharability just a strategy to draw attention to Trump funders that his constituents do business with?
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I think this stuff is subtle. I'm 100% on board with "don't eat at Martha's Tacos because the owner donated to Trump". An easy-to-spread image, tweeted from a high-follower account, with names of retired people just marked as TRUMP DONORS icks me out.
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