Google’s move to curb abuses in online political advertising has sparked a debate about one of ad land’s most-effective targeting tools, known as “customer match,” where marketers serve messages directly to voters based on their email contacts.Source: Google takes a match to political ad targeting, now Facebook feels the heat too...
By Staff Writer California’s highest court will decide Thursday whether the state can require presidential candidates, including President Trump, to disclose their tax returns in order to appear on the state’s primary ballot.Source: California’s top court to decide whether state can force Trump to disclose tax returns...
On November 21, the California Supreme Court issued a ruling in Patterson v Padilla, finding that the new law requiring presidential primary candidates to disclose their tax returns if they want to be on a presidential primary ballot violates the California Constitution. The opinion is unanimous.Source: California Supreme Court Unanimously Rules that California Tax Returns-Ballot Law Violates the State Constitution...
California’s decision to move up its 2020 primary to early March will make the nation’s most populous state one of the most important in deciding the Democratic presidential candidate. But the winner may not be known for weeks.Source: It May Take a Month to Name California’s Winner on Super Tuesday...
On November 21, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said he will drop his pending appeal in the Ninth Circuit over whether the new California law on tax returns and presidential candidates is constitutional.Source: California Secretary of State Will End Appeal in Ninth Circuit in Tax Returns-Ballot Lawsuit...
The social network is said to be discussing changes that include restricting how precisely campaigns can reach specific groups.Source: Why Everyone Is Angry at Facebook Over Its Political Ads Policy...
WASHINGTON — In upstate New York, Travis Trudell got an alert on his phone Wednesday morning telling him the impeachment hearings had started. He turned on Disney Plus instead. In Wisconsin, Jerre Corrigan never considered watching. She spent the day giving a math lesson to third graders.Source: ‘No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News...
Jurvetson and Women.Vote did not respond to requests for comment. Women.Vote did not appear to purchase any Facebook ads, according to Facebook’s ad archive. It’s unclear whether the group has run other ads in other newspapers.Source: Dark money group promotes Warren in Iowa...
Court order.Source: Campaign Legal Center Unsuccessfully Fights Effort to Allow Clinton Campaign and Allied Super PAC to Defend Itself in Federal Court (Comment from Marc Elias)...
The House Ethics Committee released updates on their investigations into four lawmakers on Thursday, including a high-profile freshman Democratic lawmaker and a Republican lawmaker who they revealed is under investigation by the Department of Justice. CNN's Clare Foran contributed to this report.Source: House Ethics Committee extends investigations into Tlaib and 3 other lawmakers...
