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sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 09:16 PM Jan 2019

The right uses web ads to spread propaganda

Because the right is funded by billionaires and corporations, and enjoys a big money advantage over the left, the right can spend their billionaire dollars to buy propaganda web ads.

I saw this ad on the Charlotte News Observer’s site.


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How do we stop this? The first step is awareness. The right is trying to smear Phillips because they know that MAGA hat racism-slinger kid was in the wrong.

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The right uses web ads to spread propaganda (Original Post) sharedvalues Jan 2019 OP
Yup TheRealNorth Jan 2019 #1

TheRealNorth

(9,629 posts)
1. Yup
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 09:25 PM
Jan 2019

Any the right-wing create/fund "fake news" sites that are shown right along side CNN and other mainstream news on your Google/Yahoo/MSN main page or embedded within a newspaper's website.


When this first started I used to able to block the shit based on the source, but Yahoo stopped allowing you to do that (or hid how you can do it)

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