Interesting "Fake News" targetted ads by "vote leave" campaign

[Notch7]

It was still trying to scare them into more intense anti-immigrant, anti-foreigner sentiments.

Your opinion, your biased opinion.

Not fact.

No doubt you think it would be fine for Turkey to join the EU, you are obviously happy to ignore their human rights violations. Yup Wannabe agrees with the oppression of Kurds.

 

[JohnD]

I expect they raised awareness of a country with a terrible human rights record were trying to join the EU.

A country which, for that among other reasons, has no prospect of being allowed to join the EU.

Even if it did, the UK, which was and still is a member nation, has the right of veto.

 

[JohnD]

According to Notch, Turkey meets the criteria for joining, and should be allowed in.

 

[Mike10]

Breaking news: "The adverts were never requested by Vote Leave or BeLeave. They never ran."
https://order-order.com/2018/07/27/...-fake-news-about-vote-leave-facebook-adverts/

 

[sodthisforfun]

Breaking news: "The adverts were never requested by Vote Leave or BeLeave. They never ran."
https://order-order.com/2018/07/27/...-fake-news-about-vote-leave-facebook-adverts/

Ha ha ha ha!

 

[sodthisforfun]

I am not suggesting anything. I don't know why you are so fond of trying to put words in my mouth. What a coincidence that they didn't mention the 81million people in Germany, which, unlike Turkey, actually IS a member of the EU. There must be something about Turkey that makes it more frightening to Quitters than Germany. So much so that it outweighs the fact that Turkey has a smaller population; and is not a member of the EU; and any existing member of the EU (such as the UK, or any of the others) can veto its application, if, in some far-distant days, it becomes a country that meets the EU eligibility standards.

Why do YOU think that the Leave advert homed in on Turkey?

So you're NOT suggesting that these posters were aimed at racists now? Blimey, make up your mind.

 

[JohnD]

I wonder if mike has noticed the word "some"

My post was made AFTER the correction mentioned

 

[JohnD]

So you're NOT suggesting that these posters were aimed at racists now?

I don't know why you're so fond of trying to put words into my mouth.

What do YOU think was the special appeal of making up a false claim about Turkey in particular? There must be some reason that they didn't mention the 81million people in Germany, which, unlike Turkey, actually IS a member of the EU. There must be something about Turkey that makes it more frightening to Quitters than Germany. So much so that it outweighs the fact that Turkey has a smaller population; and is not a member of the EU; and any existing member of the EU (such as the UK, or any of the others) can veto its application, if, in some far-distant days, it becomes a country that meets the EU eligibility standards

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

Wannabe agrees with the oppression of Kurds.

Not fact.

Precisely! Pure, unadulterated lies.

It is what you do, persistently, repetitively and blatantly!
Just like your other namesake.

 

[sodthisforfun]

I don't know why you're so fond of trying to put words into my mouth.

What do YOU think was the special appeal of making up a false claim about Turkey in particular? There must be some reason that they didn't mention the 81million people in Germany, which, unlike Turkey, actually IS a member of the EU. There must be something about Turkey that makes it more frightening to Quitters than Germany. So much so that it outweighs the fact that Turkey has a smaller population; and is not a member of the EU; and any existing member of the EU (such as the UK, or any of the others) can veto its application, if, in some far-distant days, it becomes a country that meets the EU eligibility standards

So why did you use the words 'frightening racits' when describing the poster then?
And why are you trying to make a connection between Turkey and racists?

 

[JohnD]

A question that's too difficult for Sod to attempt an answer.

What do YOU think was the special appeal of making up a false claim about Turkey in particular?

 

[sodthisforfun]

A question that's too difficult for Sod to attempt an answer.

Not at all, just refuse to play your games, nor should I answer questions when you never answer any put to you.

 

[Roger928]

by aiming these false stories at people who'd been identified, for example as anti-foreigner (but preventing the ads being generally seen) the campaigners were able to trigger support from minorities and extremists without being exposed to the general public as liars and racists.

Interesting to find out, but two years too late.


Ads that were quite simply lies

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and also managed to include a false and misleading impression to frighten the racists


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Other ads were targeted at, for example, animal lovers, with some vague and unsubstantiated smear

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Or a vague ad targeted at tea-drinking pensioners that's pure nonsense.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44966969

They also managed to harvest thousands of people's contact details by underhand means

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"The odds of winning the contest - which Vote Leave funded through an insurance policy - were calculated at one in 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

It was described by one Vote Leave insider at the time as a potential "game changer" because it would allow it to gather the contact details of thousands of potential voters, many of whom would not normally be interested in the referendum."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44966969

"The official Vote Leave campaign spent more than £2.7m on targeting ads at specific groups of people on Facebook - helping it to win the 2016 EU referendum.

The US social media giant has now released these ads to a committee of MPs investigating fake news - meaning everyone, not just those they were originally aimed at, can now see them."

"The 120 pages of documents appear to back up the findings of the Electoral Commission, which ruled last week that Vote Leave broke electoral law by working jointly with another campaign, BeLeave - something denied by both groups."

Turkeys population is 82 million. Good idea for them to join the eu? Yep.
Should help the rise of the far right and bring chaos to the eu.
Hang on. Silly me..the far right is already rising in the eu and chaos is following.
Dumb lwr.

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

I wonder if mike has noticed the word "some"

Vote Leave spent £2.7m on advertising, but did not run some of the ads.

The official Vote Leave campaign spent more than £2.7m on targeting ads at specific groups of people on Facebook - helping it to win the 2016 EU referendum.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44966969

 

[Mike10]

I wonder if mike has noticed the word "some"

I did. I posted a selective quote from a story in the hope that it would be assumed to apply to all of them and would be seen to be much more than it actually is ....... a standard remainer propaganda tactic I believe.