[rm999]

I'm surprised the recent news about how Trump's campaign is using facebook to depress black voting wasn't mentioned.

>The animation will be delivered to certain African American voters through Facebook “dark posts” — nonpublic posts whose viewership the campaign controls so that, as Parscale puts it, “only the people we want to see it, see it.” The aim is to depress Clinton’s vote total. “We know because we’ve modeled this,” says the official. “It will dramatically affect her ability to turn these people out.”

Highly targeted negative political advertising is the norm, but when the digital director for a campaign is openly using the ethnicity option in facebook to "affect her ability to turn these people out", it feels wrong.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the...

[jessaustin]

TFA: If the ad were selling a house or recruiting for a job fair, it would almost certainly be illegal.

We have laws about that stuff, for good reason. They don't address political speech, however, and probably wouldn't pass constitutional muster if they did. This is the sort of tawdry viciousness we've come to expect from Trump, but it's solidly within the "marketplace of ideas". The only way to respond to this is with opposing targeted ads.