Facebook Embeds In Trumps Campaign Is A BFD, No Matter What Silicon Valley Says

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Sunday night, CBS news ran an interview with Donald Trump's digital director, Brad Parscale. As part of the interview, Parscale admitted that Facebook sent employees to embed inside Trump's campaign after they were approved as Trump supporters by Parscale himself.

A month ago, we ran the video of a Trump campaign employee making the same claim, at which time I expressed horror at the unethical conduct of a public corporation offering undocumented, undisclosed assistance to a presidential campaign. My concerns were more or less dismissed.

Now Parscale confirms it, and once again, it sparks a discussion which is dismissed by the denizens of Silicon Valley, as you'll see in this interview.

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/10/tech-editor-kara-swisher-defends-facebook

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1. After watching that interview at Axios I am more

convinced they have no idea what they are doing and or do they care.

[PoliticAverse]

2. "People in the Clinton campaign confirmed that the offer was made and turned down"

From the original CBS story (which you can find at):
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-embeds-russia-and-the-trump-campaigns-secret-weapon/

Lesley Stahl: Did Hillary's campaign have someone embedded—

Brad Parscale: I had heard that they didn't accept any of their offers.

Lesley Stahl: So you're saying Facebook and the others offered an embed, and they said no.

Brad Parscale: That's what I've heard.

People in the Clinton campaign confirmed that the offer was made and turned down.

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3. I agree. It makes all those social network companies no different than Fox News,

working directly with Republicans to distribute their propaganda to an unwitting and credulous public for the purpose of undermining our political system to tip elections in their favor.

How deep does this go? It would be foolish to think that this chummy collusion to promote the Republican agenda was limited to just the last election. There's nothing preventing Facebook and the other companies embedding their experts with the GOP and providing Republicans a big PR boost by peddling their policies while either bashing or ignoring Democrats.