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African American

70sEraVet

(4,196 posts) Fri Aug 18, 2023, 08:55 AM Aug 2023

3.5 million black Americans targeted for deterrence from voting in 2016

The Trump campaign, using Cambridge Analytica, methodically categorized individual African Americans in key battleground states, and used that information, not to win them over to vote for Trump, but to convince them not to vote (that's why the label 'deterence' was used).
This video is a couple of years old, but i had never heard about any of this until yesterday.

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