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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump Has Run Roughly 2,200 Facebook Ads Using the Word 'Invasion' Since May 2018
Donald Trump Has Run Roughly 2,200 Facebook Ads Using the Word 'Invasion' Since May 2018
By Christina Zhao On 8/4/19 at 10:05 PM EDT
President Donald Trump has run roughly 2,200 Facebook advertisements using the word "invasion" since May 2018, Media Matters announced on Sunday following two mass shootings over the weekend.
"According to Facebook's ad archive, Trump has run around 2,200 FB ads since May 2018 mentioning the word 'invasion.' Scrolling through, all of them seem to be about immigration," Natalie Martinez, an extremism & social media researcher for Media Matters, a progressive media watchdog, tweeted on Sunday, alongside screenshots of the president's advertisements.
"We have an INVASION! So we are BUILDING THE WALL to STOP IT! Dems will sue us. But we want a SAFE COUNTRY!," one of Trump's advertised posts read. "It's CRITICAL that we STOP THE INVASION. Nancy Pelosi and Democrats have no negotiated in good faith to fund a wall at our Southern Border, proving that OBSTRUCTION is far more important to them than YOUR SAFETY..."
Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted Martinez's post on Sunday evening and declared that by repeatedly using the words "infestation" and "invasion" to address a "specific, targeted group of people," Trump is implying that they are "vermin."
"This is the language of white supremacy & it goes all the way to the top," the freshman lawmaker tweeted. "It's not a matter of political stances. This is stoking hatred + endangering the country."
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Donald Trump Has Run Roughly 2,200 Facebook Ads Using the Word 'Invasion' Since May 2018 (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2019
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mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. If you don't want Facebook to get the credit with Newsweek for your hit ...
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-has-run-roughly-2200-facebook-ads-using-word-invasion-since-may-2018-1452514
Yeah, it's pretty damn obvious who the true source of this violence is, isn't it?
Yeah, it's pretty damn obvious who the true source of this violence is, isn't it?
Timmygoat
(779 posts)2. So he has gone
From saying 'Mexico will pay for the wall' to Democrats won't pay for the wall!