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backtoblue

(11,343 posts)
5. I did a mass internet ad opt out recently
Sun Oct 6, 2019, 02:18 PM
Oct 2019

News Corp was one of the companies that was target advertising/psyop data collecting me....


Along with around a hundred other ad companies.





NewsCorp and Fox have no more power than Viacom,CBS,or Disney...they exist to make money, virgogal Oct 2019 #1
Just remember the 2000 election. Initech Oct 2019 #2
Those other corporations are all more or less the same and not blatantly propagandizing. Garrett78 Oct 2019 #4
The biggest common thread: Income inequality DrToast Oct 2019 #3
I live in an upper lower middle class neighborhood. Initech Oct 2019 #7
You misunderstand DrToast Oct 2019 #8
That's one. But there is the issue of aging white populations trying to beat back the "other", Texin Oct 2019 #11
I did a mass internet ad opt out recently backtoblue Oct 2019 #5
K&R. n/t ms liberty Oct 2019 #6
Yes. That's also much of the explanation for LW incompetent Hortensis Oct 2019 #9
Seriously I am dreading what is going to happen next year. Initech Oct 2019 #21
I was ready to ask the doctor for a first-ever anxiolytic Hortensis Oct 2019 #23
Makes me think about Gladwell's "Nudge" - how to influence people with minimal effort erronis Oct 2019 #10
I agree... defacto7 Oct 2019 #12
That - and support from big business sandensea Oct 2019 #13
It's on the rise because of immigration/refugees. It's just that simple. nt UniteFightBack Oct 2019 #14
Cut the cord to U.S. news and entertainment 5 years ago. We haven't seen a paid TV ad since 2012. usaf-vet Oct 2019 #15
Oh yeah I hardly ever watch network TV anymore. Initech Oct 2019 #22
I didn't know sky was owned by fox kimbutgar Oct 2019 #16
We've had sensationalism for ages Marthe48 Oct 2019 #17
sensationalism is not the same as DISinformation Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2019 #27
in this country fox is visual icing for the lie turd pie of talk radio. brazil's asshole certainot Oct 2019 #18
g certainot Oct 2019 #19
Also... kentuck Oct 2019 #20
Sky News is nothing like Fox Spider Jerusalem Oct 2019 #24
Doesn't Murdoch own the Sun? Initech Oct 2019 #25
Yep (and neither the Sun nor the NY Post is a "supermarket tabloid") Spider Jerusalem Oct 2019 #26
Conservative Whites such as Murdoch need to face immigration restrictions. Dawson Leery Oct 2019 #28
Several years ago, we did a fabulous home exchange on the Appian Way secondwind Oct 2019 #29
I support this premise. Additionally, it is an addiction to stress that causes many littlemissmartypants Oct 2019 #30
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