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Setting up these pages for multiple candidates make it seem even more of an online grift capitalizing on donor inattention to the fine print.
Shady. Gross. May be legal but sure feels like fraud.
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Wow. Would love to see how much they’ve raked in by Trojan horsing donors into unwittingly donating to them.
thedailybeast.com/political-mone…
1) AmericaBlog Action appears to likely be buying Google keywords
2) So, when someone searches “Donate to (candidate)” they see one of AmericaBlog’s links
4) Their donation then gets split in half and only half goes to the candidate
5) No one searching “Donate to (candidate)” is actually searching for AmericaBlog Action
7) So, an opaque group is siphoning off donor’s money by creating pages that look like campaign pages
Sooooooo grifty! Wow.
secure.actblue.com/donate/buttigi…
Buying candidates’ names on Google AdWords, setting up donation pages and directing half into your own pocket is a pretty big effing grift.
Apparently several people were posting about this over the last couple days including Mel Ankoly and @charles_gaba
Ankoly has me blocked, so I didn’t see those tweets and I somehow missed Charles’ until he fwded them to me.
No real sleuthing here on my part.
No pride of discovery here.