That is not true, according to an investigation ran by a third-party https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-politics-54457407 Do you trust the third-party investigation, or a couple of whistleblowers one of which designed the entire system and another of whom sold the system. No doubt CA is a wake-up call for data security and privacy.. but a sales person telling you how freakin’ powerful the system is and how they can control the world with their ML models. Well we’ve all heard that.

By the way it’s not just TV ads to consider. Mail is a huge part especially for political campaigns and NO one has visibility to that. You can’t just cherry-pick one distribution model of advertisements.