Ocasio-Cortez spent at least $4.2 million on Facebook ads in 2019-2020. Almost all these ads simply solicit further donations in a kind of fundraising ouroboros. Her criticism of Facebook could carry more moral weight (at no cost to her!) if she didn't give them so much money.https://twitter.com/JohnHendel/status/1349369497145241605 …
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Dunno how you figure the facebook ads are a bonfire: seems like effective fundraising, and also generating awareness of issues. They're obviously reaching a far broader base than what would be her direct constituents.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/us/politics/aoc-facebook-ads.html …
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See: $2.5m spent and $4.1m raised. So if we look at the content of the ads and the money spent vs the money raised, I would say it all checks out. As for the 'moral weight' of it, I dunno if it's technically hypocrisy: she is not trying to outlaw use of FB or spending on ads?
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