AD BUY. NBC. “Facebook said on Wednesday it had found that an influence operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of ads promoting divisive social and political messages in a two-year-period through May. ” KEY AD QUESTION. WP. “The question that arises in the context of the Russia investigation is twofold. The first […]
Month: September 2017
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MENENDEZ TRIAL BEGINS. POL. “A federal courtroom in Newark, N.J., on Wednesday morning will feature a rare sight — a U.S. senator facing felony criminal charges.” TRIAL PREVIEW. CNN. “It’s a case with allegations spanning seven years, multiple countries, and involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the center of it: a sitting US senator.” […]
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20 MONEY CHASE. NYT. “In interviews, more than three dozen leading Democratic donors, fund-raisers and operatives agreed that it was the earliest start they had ever seen to the jockeying that typically precedes the official kickoff to the campaign for the party’s presidential nomination.” KID ROCK ACCUSED. ML. “Kid Rock might not have formally announced […]