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14 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Lolz
Earlier this year.
“Are you trying to say that I’m dumb”

I mean.
“I wish everyone was as perfect as you pete”

If Biden nominates Pete for a cabinet post, will must-watch cspan to see Klobuchar’s body language when she votes.
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Alex Thompson Profile picture
14 Oct
Wow. twitter going even further than FB and is no longer letting ppl tweet the NYPost story. This is what pops up if you try.
The Trump campaign is responding by tweeting out the article in 280 characters bits.
from @yashar, Twitter defends decisions based on "Hacked Material Policy."
What constitutes hacked material tho?
Snowden leaks?
How about WikiLeaks state department cables?
Are Podesta emails now off-limits on Twitter?
here's their page.
help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-p…
Read 5 tweets
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1 Oct
Biden camp two weeks ago: we don't need to door knock and people don't want us to knock on their doors.

Biden today: this weekend will dispatch several hundred newly trained volunteers to knock doors across Nevada, Michigan, NH, and Pennsylvania

apnews.com/article/electi…
This is a huge reversal for the Biden camp which attacked Trump camp for knocking
DNC in August:
"Trump campaign is risking the lives of their staff, the lives of voters, and risking becoming a super spreader organization during the middle of a pandemic."

Biden campaign manager to @apalmerdc and @JakeSherman last month
“I know the republicans want to say we have a million door knocks a week. Well that doesn’t really matter.”

Read 8 tweets
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1 Oct
NEW w/ @theodoricmeyer
Biden transition elevates former Facebook exec as general counsel who will be the arbiter of ethics.

Progressives blasted the move which comes as The Biden camp is upping its criticism of FB.

@jeffhauser quote below.
politico.com/news/2020/09/3…
Another bit from this story last night.
Biden's transition team has already made a “handful” of exceptions to thejr new ethics rules.

They didn’t answer q’s about how their rules would be enforced and whether or not there would be any transparency on when exceptions are given.
Obama’s 2008 transition also had an official in charge of arbitrating ethics: Chris lu, who came from Obama’s senate office rather than the business world like Hertz.
Read 6 tweets
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29 Sep
The Trump camp has the YouTube homepage reserved today AND for the final 72 hours of the election
The camp will have bought the space > 20 times before Nov. 3
great @NicoleSganga piece
this is one of the ads on the homepage today
cbsnews.com/news/trump-cam…
This is one of the others featuring Gary Lamb, a Black truck driver who says:
"I don't have the luxury to worry about freaking Roe v. Wade....I'm too busy trying to keep my family fed to think about that. And for the first goddamn time in my life, i actually see a way out..."
Another one on the homepage is "teleprompted Joe"

The homepage has boosted all 4 ads in rotation above 1 million views today.

ICYMI I wrote a few weeks ago about how Trump was spending BIG on YouTube as a lifeline even as it cut TV spending.

politico.com/news/2020/09/0…
Read 4 tweets
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27 Sep
NEW: just as TV upended debate rules, the smartphone has changed them again.
My look at the camps attempts to shape the social media convo (twitter for media, FB/Google for everyone else)
Biden has codenamed one of their teams on this the “rebel alliance”
politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
Biden digital director @Rob_Flaherty explained their approach:
“Reporter rapid response is happening on Twitter. But real people, when they're trying to figure out, ‘What's going on in the debate?’ — they're going to Google.”
In 2012, when approximately 40 percent of Americans owned smartphones, the Obama campaign saw focus groups that showed voters with a mobile device thought Barack Obama performed worse in the first debate than voters who watched it unfiltered on TV.
Now over 80% have smartphones
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26 Sep
NEW: Why are right-wing FB pages so popular?

A Facebook exec argues the msg is just more visceral: "Right wing populism is always more engaging...Nation, protection, the other, anger, fear. That was there in the 30s. That's not invented by social media"

politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
The Biden campaign blasted Facebook for this explanation.
@BillR "Facebook's platform is a mirror alright — a fun house mirror. One that has twisted and distorted our world and our politics...It is a choice to create an algorithm that feeds the distrust and polarization..."
The FB exec said the left's frustration is also social media reflecting a dynamic rather than creating it
"All center-left campaigners & politicians always ask themselves, ‘Why can't [we] seem to rile their supporters as much as right-wing populists have?’”
full quote
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