Republicans paid huge, strange sums to Facebook and a mystery company for 'list acquisition'

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After reporting essentially no payments to Facebook for about three years, the Republican National Committee paid the social media company $5.5 million for “list acquisition” between September and November 2019, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

This article first appeared in Salon.

The RNC has also paid about $5 million for contact lists to a mystery company created in January, including a million-dollar buy on the day the Trump campaign sent 88 targeted ads to Facebook users featuring images similar to Nazi iconography.

The RNC’s three Facebook filings have not yet been publicly reported. The payments are not classified as ad buys, but “list acquisition,” suggesting that the end goal was not exclusively promotional, but the extraction of user data.


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/republicans-paid-huge-strange-sums-to-facebook-and-a-mystery-company-for-list-acquisition/

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2. Here's the Salon article

https://www.salon.com/2020/08/08/republicans-paid-huge-strange-sums-to-facebook-and-a-mystery-company-for-list-acquisition/

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3. Come on. Is it really a mystery to anyone who owns that company?

And still people use Facebook.

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4. K&R for visibility.