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Guardian US tech reporter Julia Carrie Wong spent a year analysing Trump’s Facebook campaign. She discusses how the sophisticated social media machine is targeting voters. And Leah Green reflects on the death of former Love Island presenter Caroline Flack During 2019, Donald Trump’s campaign spent nearly $20m (£15.4m) on more than 218,000 different Facebook ads. […] More
Republicans may not have a corner on technology, but they definitely know their data and digital media Donald Trump was gloating again. “Now I understand the votes are fried in Iowa,” he told reporters at the White House on Friday. “Think of it, all the money that Democrats spent and the votes are fried. They […] More
Chris Wray tells Congress Moscow waging social media campaign but says he has not seen new effort to hack election infrastructure The FBI director, Christopher Wray, has warned that Russia is engaged in “information warfare” heading into the 2020 presidential election, though he said law enforcement has not seen ongoing efforts by Russia to target […] More
Operation re-elect Trump Meet the social media master who could win Trump a second term Brad Parscale campaign manager for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign speaks during the California Republican fall convention on 7 September 2019, in Indian Wells, California. Photograph: Chris Carlson/AP Brad Parscale was the outsider who fashioned Trump’s digital campaign in 2016. Now […] More
