The industry, and a couple of nervous Democrats, want to keep the legislation forever off the Senate calendar. Chuck Schumer is the key decision-maker.
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Super PACs Play Loose With the Facts in Promoting Corporate Dems
In races in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, corporate PAC ads have been taken off TV for misinformation.
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Is It Racist to Criticize China?
Those who attack Tim Ryan’s ad challenging China’s predatory trade practices as ‘anti-Asian’ are playing a dangerous game.
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Lobbyist-Led Dark-Money Group Buys Pro-Schrader Ads
Better Jobs Together, which previously ran ads for Henry Cuellar and Kyrsten Sinema, is on the air for Rep. Kurt Schrader in his tightly contested Oregon primary contest against a progressive challenger.
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‘Dark Money’ Groups Battle Online Over Reconciliation Bill
Digital ad network portals provide a view of the ad wars around the Build Back Better Act.
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Toxic Ads and How to Counter Them
Anticipating and rebutting likely lines of attack is the best strategy, on both partisan and civic grounds.
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The Problem With Facebook Is Fraud
Disinformation and calls for corporate censorship are a distraction. The social media company violates the law all the time.
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Senators Want Juul Punished for Buying an Academic Journal
Sens. Warren and Blumenthal ask the FDA and FTC to review Juul’s sponsorship of an entire edition of the American Journal of Health Behavior.
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Juul: Taking Academic Corruption to a New Level
The e-cigarette company bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal, with all the articles written by authors on its payroll, to ‘prove’ that its product has a public benefit.
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The Growing Movement to End the Surveillance Economy
A new coalition has formed against digital platforms’ dangerous business model of collecting voluminous user data and using it to serve up ads.
