Okay I want to talk about the TikTok/K-pop stan let’s-troll-Trump operation and specifically about the data gathering aspect of it.— Claire Ryan (@aetherlev) June 21, 2020
I'm recommending the thread. I'm only quoting parts of it:
Probably not in any detail but the use of fake social media profiles and fake emails specifically to make advertising data worthless is a thing going back years.— Claire Ryan (@aetherlev) June 21, 2020
So the troll operation in this case, by all accounts, used fake emails and temp Google Voice numbers.
Not even just donations: I’d bet they were planning on using this data to cross reference against other sources and do additional micro-targeting.— Claire Ryan (@aetherlev) June 21, 2020
Let’s say they were going to use it to ID moderates to advertise to them.
Like, for voters who they have a profile on already, like committed MAGAts, they can probably select them out and add this data point to the profile for future use, but novel signups? The thing that Parscale was bragging about IIRC?— Claire Ryan (@aetherlev) June 21, 2020
Junk.
Just passed 800,000 tickets. Biggest data haul and rally signup of all time by 10x.— Brad Parscale (@parscale) June 14, 2020
Saturday is going to be amazing! https://t.co/u2tQ812odW
Yeah, not so much.
Especially since this afternoon Marc Trotter told Katy Tur 18 million people (up from 11 million reported this morning) went online to watch the rally:So in conclusion, all the photos of the half-empty arena are nice, but the thing really making me giggle is the thought of Parscale staring at that database and wondering when he’ll be fired. pic.twitter.com/lr40QN2UDE— Claire Ryan (@aetherlev) June 21, 2020
“When I look from the rally — overall when you take a look at all of the viewers that we had on our online platforms and as well as some of the television ratings we have seen, 18 million people were watching that rally on Saturday night,” Lotter claimed....
They really are just pulling numbers out of their ass.
A quint-jillion.
ReplyDeleteParscale strikes me as a bully who grew up being over-impressed with his size. No wonder Trump hired him, the bully part of it. Trump likes bullies but not when they let him down.