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Re:Quantifying the Adpocalypse by three_seagrass on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:29PM (#22828327)
According to Zuckerberg, in defense against accusations that he was being greedy by allowing them on FB.

I'd be more interested in an independent or consumer-based third party analysis validating his numbers, since he doesn't mention PAC spending.

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Re:Quantifying the Adpocalypse by redis_mlc on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:01PM (#22829224)
Trump spent very little in his first election campaign, mainly relying on saying outrageous things and tweeting (one estimate was that he added $2 billion to the value of the Twitter brand.)

How little? Enough that all the Silicon Valley advertising companies missed their quarter, either unaware or wilfully ignorant that he wasn't spending money.

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Re:Quantifying the Adpocalypse by kevin_thibedeau on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:24AM (#22830231)
He wasn't trying to win.
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