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Trump Takes On 'Crooked Hillary' With Snapchat Geofilter (arstechnica.com)

In an effort to appeal to more young voters, U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has unveiled a "geofilter" ad campaign for Snapchat that slaps on the banner phrase "Donald J. Trump vs. Crooked Hillary" to a user's photo and video Snaps. Ars Technica reports: "The ad rolled out to American Snapchat users today, just ahead of the 2016 presidential election's first major debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton (the debate starts tonight at 9pm EDT). The ad joins the usual geofilter available to Snapchat users, which usually list the name of a city or a nearby event as determined by GPS and time information. The campaign differs from the deluge of text, photo, and video ads that politicans have relied on in recent years, as it doesn't publish or display to the public without a personal photo or video attached. While other political campaigns have paid for geofilter ad campaigns on Snapchat in the past, including Clinton and Bernie Sanders, those have been timed and targeted for smaller-scale events like political conventions and primary voting periods. In a statement to CNN, the Clinton campaign said that Trump was "throwing his money into a fire pit," and it pointed out the ad's potential for backfiring, since "given Trump's deep unpopularity with young voters, [the ad's phrasing] will be used mainly at [his] own expense."

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  1. Re:Name Calling by serviscope_minor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Trump may be very (not nice) things, but the guy literally wrote the book on negotiation.

    No, he wrote *a* book on negotiation. Anyone can write a book.

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  2. Re:Everything Trump does is bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If she deleted emails AFTER them being subpoenaed by Congress she would be in prison now.
    If she deleted work related emails after being subpoenaed by the FBI, as Comey confirmed she did, she would be in prison now.
    If she lied under oath to Congress, as confirmed by Comey, she would be in prison now.

    Just because there is a different set of rules for her and she doesn't go to prison for committing crimes doesn't mean she didn't commit crimes.

  3. Re:Name Calling by Jason+Levine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And he didn't actually write that book either. He had someone ghostwrite it for him.

    So if we want to accurately correct the poster's statement, it would be:

    Trump may be very (not nice) things, but the guy literally paid someone to write the book on negotiation and then slapped his name on it.

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