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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2421 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 4, 2018

Fundamentally:

Advertising with old media was understood. Advertising with new media isn't. Getting Joe Namath to sell deodorant was obvious but now nobody knows who is equivalent to Joe Namath.

Thus, everyone throws money at Instagram and Zuckerberg uses it to ruin elections.