If this is not “misinformation” I do not know what’s: Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign has been working Google advertisements, identical to many others. The one drawback: Her marketing campaign is intentionally making it appear like information shops like The Guardian, NPR, Reuters, the Related Press, USA At the moment, and Time journal are on her facet by working advertisements designed to appear like flattering headlines.
Axios first reported this and famous that former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign has not carried out the identical. (If it had, I believe that you’d be listening to much more about this story, with this follow repeatedly condemned as one which spreads misinformation.)
Although the follow doesn’t technically violate Google’s insurance policies, with a spokesperson saying sponsored content material is “simply distinguishable from Search outcomes,” it seems to be… shockingly misleading. Judge for yourself.
Although “the advertisements embrace hyperlinks to actual articles from the information shops…the headlines and supporting textual content have been altered to learn as if the articles help the Harris marketing campaign’s aims,” notes Axios. An advert that hyperlinks to the Related Press incorporates the headline “VP Harris’s Financial Imaginative and prescient—Decrease Prices and Larger Wages” with a subhead studying “A future the place each individual has the chance not simply to get by however to get forward. We cannot return to the failed trickle-down insurance policies that damage working households.” An advert with a hyperlink to NPR makes use of the headline “Harris Will Decrease Well being Prices,” together with a subhead studying “Kamala Harris will decrease the price of high-quality inexpensive well being care.”
“Spokespeople for manufacturers comparable to CNN, USA At the moment and NPR, whose hyperlinks appeared in Harris for President advertisements, mentioned they have been unaware their model was being featured this fashion,” reports Axios. And, an unconvincing response from the culprits themselves: “A supply accustomed to the Harris marketing campaign’s advertisements staff mentioned the marketing campaign buys search advertisements with information hyperlinks to offer voters trying to find details about Vice President Harris extra context.”
I actually miss out on the explanation for modifying these advertisements to make it appear like these information shops are on Harris’ facet—the unique headlines are flattering enough.
CPI is available in: In July, client costs rose 0.2 %, up 2.9 % during the last 12 months.* Core costs, which strip out meals and gas, have been up 3.2 % in comparison with a yr in the past. There have been no massive surprises; this was all roughly aligned with what analysts anticipated, although it’s notable that “that is the primary time that total inflation, measured on a year-over-year foundation, has are available in under 3 % since March of 2021,” per The New York Occasions‘ Ben Casselman.
There have been upticks in each meals and shelter indices (the meals index, notably, had fallen in June), per a Bloomberg evaluation of the report.
This report could also be “among the many final inflation readings that can matter massively to the Fed and Wall Road,” noted the Occasions‘ Jeanna Smialek previous to the discharge. “We’re already beginning to focus much more on the job market, and if this reconfirms that inflation is on a cooling pattern, heading again to the central financial institution’s 2 % purpose, I feel the main target goes to shift much more.”
The Federal Reserve had already telegraphed intentions to chop rates of interest this September, and the truth that this client worth index report is roughly aligned with individuals’s expectations makes that transfer much more possible.
Scenes from New York: “Mr. Ademolu spends his days like this, pacing Manhattan subway platforms and stations, trying to find individuals who seem severely mentally unwell. He’s a member of a Subway Co-Response Outreach, or SCOUT, staff, a brand new mission between town and the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority,” writes The Manhattan Institute’s Nicole Gelinas in The New York Occasions. “His work represents the newer of two methods that New York’s metropolis and state governments are utilizing to dispel the ambiance of dysfunction and hazard that permeates the subways. The opposite is extra old style policing and prosecution. Success for each is dependent upon New York making a purposeful psychological well being system and recreating a purposeful prison justice system. If this technique works, it might turn out to be a mannequin for different American cities scuffling with crime and psychological sickness.”
The piece is de facto good, contrasting policing approaches of the previous with these of the current, and positioning arrests throughout the context of a prison justice system that declines to prosecute issues like fare beating at a a lot greater fee than up to now. (“This yr, as Hannah Meyers on the Manhattan Institute has discovered, of 6,041 transit-system arrests, prosecutors declined 33.6 % of circumstances and dismissed 22.5 %. This collective 56.1 % fee is greater than the 36.7 % in 2018, when District Lawyer [Cyrus] Vance stopped prosecuting most fare-beating; the speed was 15.6 % in 2017.”)
QUICK HITS
- Antitrust regulators set their sights on the stupidest attainable goal: Breaking apart Google.
- “Millennials at the moment are wealthier than earlier generations have been at their age,” reports The Wall Road Journal. “The most important driver of that improve was real estate. Millennials’ housing wealth grew $2.5 trillion, after accounting for the extra mortgage debt they took on. A colossal soar in house costs benefited homeowners, whether or not they scraped collectively a down fee within the early 2010s or squeaked in simply earlier than the latest leap in costs and charges.” However actual property is not the one issue.
- What it is prefer to swim within the cleaned-up Seine.
- Stable takes on the coverage concept of exempting ideas from taxes, which we first noticed trotted out by Trump and which Kamala Harris is now copying:
There is no such thing as a good cause for exempting ideas. A employee at McDonald’s making $15/hour in wages vs a employee at a sit-down restaurant making $15/hour (wages + ideas) needs to be handled precisely the identical for tax functions https://t.co/P1qCcfLVc0
— Jeremy ‘adjusted for inflation’ Horpedahl ???? (@jmhorp) August 12, 2024
- Please cease with the yas kween headlines:
I do not know if I can do three extra months of this. pic.twitter.com/rF9ZMy6Zn0
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) August 13, 2024
- The laugh line that poor Stephen Colbert did not notice was amusing line!
NEW: Viewers begins cracking up after a severe Stephen Colbert tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that CNN “simply stories the information as it’s.”
Exceptional.
Colbert: “I do know you guys are goal over [at CNN], you simply report the information as it’s.”
Viewers: *Laughs hysterically*… pic.twitter.com/9R8iv2UXeN
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 13, 2024
*CORRECTION: A earlier model of this publish misstated the inflation quantity from July 2023.
