In the immediate run up to the U.S. presidential election and on Election Day, the homepage of YouTube is set to advertise just one candidate: Donald Trump.
great scoop @mhbergen @joshuabrusteinhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-21/donald-trump-youtube-ads-will-dominate-election-day …
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Facebook doesn’t really have a homepage ad option that would be comparable to this. Twitter has the promoted hashtag of the day, but no candidate can take that around elections because of the company’s political ad ban.
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Important point in the story: this wasn’t some self-service purchase. The Trump campaign worked with Google sales reps to negotiate it.pic.twitter.com/QYrxlFgw4Q
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@Pinboard time to kick the@Google employees in the shins again about how their evil management is shovelling PAC cash and ad time to Trump1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
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ah yes, the well-known and extremely effective technique of kicking employees in the shins for their leadership's misdeeds
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Take some responsibility for where you choose to work
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i literally quit my job at google over ethical concerns still: you're not helping
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Respect to you for making a hard decision and following through
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