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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Facebook is a monopoly, there's no escaping it. Just like you can't live life today without some reliance on fossil fuels -- even if you're campaigning to reduce their usage. Not communicating on Facebook would in fact impose a huge handicap on
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You should tell that to the Democrats in her neighboring districts who spent nothing on Facebook ads.
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Obviously, none of those neighbors were being incessantly and incendiarily targeted by a whole political party and the president, trying to define her before she has a chance—the way it happens to so many talented politicians, especially if they are women.
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Boycott what is essentially a monopoly—or remain pure on paper while being totally kneecapped by your adversaries and surrender without even fighting lest you be perceived as impure—are not the kind of advice that has ever served women, or any politicians, come to think of it.
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I'm not talking about a boycott, just not spending $4M on an utterly safe seat in a circular bonfire. At least keep some of the money you raise if you're going to go down this route! Or if you burn the money, use it on ads that talk about you or your policy, not just solicit more
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how much cash did she have left over at the end? the way you phrased the initial tweet made it sound like she was using the fb buys to build a future warchest
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She raised $19.4 M and had $3.1 M of it left after the election.
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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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She spent $4.2 million on Facebook direct buys, based on FEC filings. I think the discrepancy is because the article is from June. The total raised/spent figure for the campaign was 19/16.
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