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by mef 604 days ago
interesting that the company that has the most viewed ads for 2024[1] ("FORCE VECTOR COMMUNICATIONS") has a total of 3 matches when you search for them[2]

[1] https://adstransparency.google.com/political?region=US&topic...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22force+vector+communicatio...

3 comments

Just shell companies for various PACs and how rich people donate through dark pools.

The Citizens United vs FEC ruling is a sham.

The obscuring seems to be unnecessary these days. I don't know how many people are still fooled by names like "Americans for America" who would actually change their vote after finding out it's just a group of real estate speculators or whatever.
I think it's the other way round. You're a respectable individual, you're buying some low-brow ads - and you don't want a newspaper to publish an expose about you, your employees throwing a hissy-fit, or a neighbor getting upset.
I understand that mentality but it's clearly not how people behave. People who buy into bullshit do so as a core personality behavior. It's like how doomsday cult members double down when the predictions don't come to pass.

I mean https://www.heavensgate.com/ is still around. Being discredited has the opposite effect as the intended. It instead concretizes the delusions. Exposing charlatans seems to only increase the fanaticism of their adherents.

You are thinking of a completely different situation. No one is thinking of some real estate guy who wants the dems or republicans to win as their cult leader when seeing those ads.
At least in the US, political partisanship I think is operationally pretty similar to a cult. It certainly doesn't have to exist like this but right now I think it is which is why I brought up the observation in the first place.
You overestimate ad consumers. Think about it, most people don't use adblock.
One of those does point to the underlying organization, "Righters Group" which seems to be a rightwing fundraising group.

Specifically, if you perform a `whois` on email-comply.com, you can find

    Registrant Organization: Force Vector Communications, LLC
and

    Tech Email: accounting@rightersgroup.com
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