[karmelapple]

Is there a difference in the means and ends?

I don’t think we have fully enough information yet, but if a political campaign is using analytics to clearly advertise their campaign, fine, that’s being straightforward.

If a political campaign is posting in ways that do not clearly label it as a political campaign, and is lying to people viewing the data it is paying to show, would you agree that’s kind of a different situation?

There’s not enough information yet I think to claim what was shown, but if political campaigns are not labeling their ads clearly, that is in violation of a variety of state - and some federal - laws.

[specialist]

The cognitive ability to be aghast over false equivalencies continues to amaze me.

Also, rationalizing cheating, because they're certain everyone's doing do it, so it's only proper when the better cheater wins.