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Sun Oct 20 21:54:33 +0000 2019

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

This is a great list of questions to ask when you read stories on campaign technology. — PolitiTweet.org

Kevin Collins @kwcollins

Okay, okay. Six questions to ask about any political tech story in a major news outlet: 1) What is the proximate… https://t.co/cwqDeO7Hor

Posted Oct. 20, 2019 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

A decent hypothesis is that it's about as effective as traditional advertising per dollar spent. I don't know wtf "I thought you were a data guy" means but l I'd like to have seen one piece of evidence in that story, empirical or otherwise, that Trump's FB ads had a big impact. — PolitiTweet.org

rat king @MikeIsaac

@NateSilver538 so your point is that facebook ad spend is a waste? i thought you were a data guy

Posted Oct. 20, 2019 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Implicit in what Kevin's here: these stories are often too credulous. They purport to take you (sort of literally) inside the machine, which is an inherently appealing premise. But they tend to take claims made by campaign operatives too much at face value. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 20, 2019 Hibernated

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