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THIS is what a personal Facebook page looks like, as referenced by Nancy Levine in the BuzzFeed story below. If you go to your page and click on the triangle in the upper right hand corner, then on settings, then on ads you can see what information is used to recommend (or to "target") ads for you and you can make some adjustments. (There's also a link in the article that will take you directly to your page.)
"Trump Is Using Targeted
Facebook Ads To Reassure Supporters He Will Build The Border Wall
The personal Facebook
pages of the president and vice president are running dark post ads
that promise "A WALL (NOT A FENCE)," while asking for
donations.
President Donald Trump is
using targeted Facebook ads to reassure supporters that he still
plans to build the border wall after his recent public comments
caused many to question whether he would keep his promise.
"There's been a lot
of noise and a lot of rumors," reads the text of a Facebook ad
from Trump's personal Facebook page that was targeted to
specific users in recent days. "....WE WILL BUILD A WALL (NOT A
FENCE) ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES..." The ad
concludes with a pitch for donations.
That all caps declaration
is in contrast to a widely discussed tweet last week in which the
president said the wall was already underway "in the form of new
renovation of old and existing fences and walls." That led
supporters such as Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy to ask"has
the wall almost become symbolic?"
… The personal Facebook
page of Vice President Mike Pence is also running a version of the
ad. One difference between the Pence and Trump ads is the VP's refers
to "Fake News media," while Trump's calls out the
"mainstream media." Both ads include a dig against
"liberals in congress."
A White House spokesman
told BuzzFeed News the ads are being run by the Trump campaign, and
referred all questions to it. The Trump campaign did not respond to
emails or phone messages about the ads.
The ads are not visible on
the timelines of the Trump or Pence Facebook pages. They are,
therefore, so-called "dark post ads" because they can only
be seen by people the campaign chose to target with the message. This
is the same type of ad Facebook recently acknowledged was
purchased by a Russian troll factory in order to target Americans
during the election. That revelation has caused lawmakers such as
Sen. Mark Warner to discuss the need to regulate online political
ads.
"An American can
still figure out what content is being used on TV advertising. ...
But in social media there's no such requirement," Warner
said, according to CNN.
The Trump and Pence ads
also highlight how politicians can use targeted ads to push a message
to supporters that walks back or contradicts a public statement.
"If candidates (and
outside groups) can say different things to different voters, it is
harder to hold them accountable for campaign promises," Erika
Franklin Fowler, director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which
tracks political ads aired on broadcast television during state and
federal elections, previously told BuzzFeed News.
These ads are also an
example of how targeting can miss its mark. Nancy Levine, an author of
books about pugs, was shown both ads in her News Feed and provided
them to BuzzFeed News. She said she is far from a Trump supporter or
potential donor.
"I wonder how was I
targeted? Most everything I post on FB is of the 'Fuck Trump'
variety," Levine said.
At BuzzFeed News' request
she visited the ad preferences page on her Facebook
profile, where anyone can view the interests the social network has
identified for a user based on their behavior on and off the
platform. To her surprise, Levine discovered her interests included
"Donald Trump" and "Conservatism," as well as
other outliers such as "Chainsaw."
"I don't even rake my
leaves, much less use a chainsaw," she said
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"The
First White President
The
foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack
Obama’s legacy.
IT IS INSUFFICIENT TO STATE the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact.
... His political career began in advocacy of birtherism, that modern recasting of the old American precept that black people are not fit to be citizens of the country they built. But long before birtherism, Trump had made his worldview clear. He fought to keep blacks out of his buildings, according to the U.S. government; called for the death penalty for the eventually exonerated Central Park Five; and railed against “lazy” black employees. “Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” Trump was once quoted as saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” After his cabal of conspiracy theorists forced Barack Obama to present his birth certificate, Trump demanded the president’s college grades (offering $5 million in exchange for them), insisting that Obama was not intelligent enough to have gone to an Ivy League school, and that his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, had been ghostwritten by a white man, Bill Ayers.
It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power. Trump inaugurated his campaign by casting himself as the defender of white maidenhood against Mexican “rapists,” only to be later alleged by multiple accusers, and by his own proud words, to be a sexual violator himself. White supremacy has always had a perverse sexual tint. Trump’s rise was shepherded by Steve Bannon, a man who mocks his white male critics as “cucks.” The word, derived from cuckold, is specifically meant to debase by fear and fantasy—the target is so weak that he would submit to the humiliation of having his white wife lie with black men. That the slur cuck casts white men as victims aligns with the dicta of whiteness, which seek to alchemize one’s profligate sins into virtue. So it was with VA slaveholders claiming that Britain sought to make slaves of them. So it was with marauding Klansmen organized against alleged rapes and other outrages. So it was with a candidate who called for a foreign power to hack his opponent’s email and who now, as...is claiming to be the victim of “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history. ... "
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* For the record, I disagree with very little in this essay, in fact and in the context of -- by virtue of my white privilege racism is not my experience, therefore I lean strongly toward trusting the analysis of those whose experience it is. I do, based on my own eyes and ears disagree with the assessment of some that "Hillary Clinton herself had endorsed the 'super-predator' theory of William J. Bennett, John P. Walters, and John J. DiIulio Jr. This theory cast 'inner-city' children of that era as 'almost completely unmoralized' and the font of 'a new generation of street criminals … the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known.' The 'baddest generation' did not become super-predators. ... "
Despite what I believe to be the truth of the environment at the time, listening to the speech in which Hillary made her ignorant reference to 'super-predator,' my personal assessment is that it was not a blanket condemnation of all black youth in the context of the noted theory.
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