Facebook Quietly Hired Republican Strategy Firm Targeted Victory (techcrunch.com)

Facebook is still reeling from the revelation that it hired an opposition research firm with close ties to the Republican party, but its relationship with Definers Public Affairs isn't the company's only recent contract work with deeply GOP-linked strategy firms. TechCrunch reports: According to sources familiar with the project, Facebook also contracted with Targeted Victory, described as "the GOP's go-to technology consultant firm." Targeted Victory worked with Facebook on the company's Community Boost roadshow, a tour of U.S. cities meant to stimulate small business interest in Facebook as a business and ad platform. The ongoing Community Boost initiative, announced in late 2017, kicked off earlier this year with stops in cities like and Topeka, Kansas and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Facebook also worked with Targeted Victory on the company's ad transparency efforts. Over the last year, Facebook has attempted to ward off regulation from Congress over ad disclosure, even putting forth some self-regulatory efforts to appease legislators.

Comments

So What?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are they not supposed to work with whomever they want? Ridiculous.

Re:So What?

[nwaack]

Are they not supposed to work with whomever they want? Ridiculous.

Not ridiculous when they manipulate elections against the law. Yes, some laws about that do still exist.

What are you trying to say? That they should only be allowed to work with liberal firms 'cuz ORANGE MAN BAD? Your post just sounds like a whole bunch of butthurt.

How Dare They

[Jarwulf]

They should only work with Strategy firms that cater only to Democrats. Also, the point of this is to insinuate this somehow means Facebook is conservative despite all the evidence to the contrary.