Who Influences Elections Most, Billionaires, Bolsheviks – Or Black Voters?

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Who Influences Elections Most, Billionaires, Bolsheviks – Or Black Voters?
I & I Editorial Board
March 6, 2020

I&I Editorial

Michael Bloomberg, The Ego That Ate New York, spent the past weeks burning an amount of cash most members of the top 1% could only fantasize about possessing as he set out to buy the U.S. presidency – and ended up purchasing for himself nothing beyond American Samoa. The American Indians who got $24 for the island the former mayor spent 12 years running as if it were his personal fiefdom must be having a good laugh in their Happy Hunting Ground.

As the Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway aptly pointed out Wednesday on Fox News, for years “people were saying a couple hundred thousand dollars in barely literate Facebook ads from Russians caused Donald Trump to win. Here you had a guy spend nearly $1 billion and he went nowhere. It’s a humiliating defeat for Michael Bloomberg.”

Shortly after the 2016 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg remarked, “I think the idea that fake news on Facebook – of which it’s a very small amount of the content – influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea.” In 2017, Facebook reported that “we have found approximately $100,000 in ad spending from June of 2015 to May of 2017 – associated with roughly 3,000 ads – that was connected to about 470 inauthentic accounts … likely operated out of Russia.”

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