Brad Parscale: Facebook, Google and Twitter employees were embedded inside the Trump campaign

Posted on October 7, 2017 by SouthernGirl2

WE’RE DOOMED. DEMOCRACY IS DEAD…….

Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale says Donald Trump won election on Facebook with highly targeted ads — and infrastructure was a key issue

President Donald Trump talked on Twitter, but Facebook was the crucial tool that helped elect him, says the man who directed the digital aspects of the Trump campaign. Brad Parscale tells Lesley Stahl how he fine-tuned political ads posted on Facebook to directly reach voters with the exact messages they cared most about – infrastructure key among them — and had handpicked Republican Facebook employees to guide him. Stahl’s report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes Sunday, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

“Twitter is how [Trump] talked to the people, Facebook was going to be how he won,” Parscale tells Stahl. Parscale says he used the majority of his digital ad budget on Facebook ads and explained how efficient they could be, particularly in reaching the rural vote. “So now Facebook lets you get to…15 people in the Florida Panhandle that I would never buy a TV commercial for,” says Parscale. And people anywhere could be targeted with the messages they cared about. “Infrastructure…so I started making ads that showed the bridge crumbling…that’s micro targeting…I can find the 1,500 people in one town that care about infrastructure. Now, that might be a voter that normally votes Democrat,” he says. Parscale says the campaign would average 50-60,000 different ad versions every day, some days peaking at 100,000 separate iterations – changing design, colors, backgrounds and words – all in an effort to refine ads and engage users.

Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, who is married to Eric Trump, was hired in March 2017 as a liaison for for Parscale’s firm, which is based in San Antonio.
Parscale lives in San Antonio with his wife and teenage daughter. He help runs the web firm Giles-Parscale in the Alamo City.

Parscale received help utilizing Facebook’s technology from Facebook employees provided by the company who showed up for work to his office multiple days a week. He says they had to be partisan and he questioned them to make sure. “I wanted people who supported Donald Trump.” Parscale calls these Facebook employees “embeds” who could teach him every aspect of the technology. “I want to know everything you would tell Hillary’s campaign plus some,” he says he told them.

Both campaigns used Facebook’s advertising technology extensively to reach voters, but Parscale says the Clinton campaign didn’t go as far as using “embeds.” “I had heard that they did not accept any of [Facebook’s] offers.”

The conservative Parscale sees an irony in all this. “These social platforms are all invented by very liberal people on the West and East Coast. And we figure out how to use it to push conservative values. I don’t think they thought that would ever happen,” says Parscale.

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30 Responses to Brad Parscale: Facebook, Google and Twitter employees were embedded inside the Trump campaign

  8. eliihass says:
    October 9, 2017 at 6:07 am

    Greed, greed …and more greed..

    It’s really just so disheartening that these people will sell this country out for a few more dollars in their pockets..

    It’s shameful..

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    • eliihass says:
      October 9, 2017 at 6:13 am

      Shame on Sheryl Sandberg too..

      She’s the COO of Facebook..

      She had to approve these..

      So much for leaning-in..

      No wonder she was right there at those meetings yucking it up with Ivanka..

      Really sad and shameful..

      Reply
    • eliihass says:
      October 9, 2017 at 5:56 am

      LOL…how so five-prong-tongued..

      Wasn’t he the one just a little while back tsk-tsking in what had to be the most bold-faced display of ironic chutzpah …warning Mueller not to go on a ‘fishing expedition’ …

      These people are all just …ugh..

      Reply
  12. rikyrah says:
    October 7, 2017 at 2:06 pm

    They did this for all the campaigns. The reason why they are pushing this now, is because Mueller is Coming, and they’re trying to find plausible deniability.

    Um….no Dears…. you are going to JAIL 😠😠😠

    Reply
  17. Liza says:
    October 7, 2017 at 1:04 pm

    Wow. Just wow.

    Reply
  18. SouthernGirl2 says:
    October 7, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    Dirty rotten scum. ALL that PAIN black people suffered at the hands of police in #Ferguson & Facebook sold ads to sow racial division.

    https://twitter.com/Robin42CD/status/913825705074593792

    Reply
  23. SouthernGirl2 says:
    October 7, 2017 at 12:25 pm

    Somebody need to go to jail…..

    Reply

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