If you missed Judd Legum’s explanation of his new online app, which you can find at paidforby.info, stop what you’re doing and watch this, or get to it as soon as you can. Judd tells you how to use the app to understand who's behind the political ads you see online and the mailers you receive—what he calls the wild west of political advertising because it receives virtually no scrutiny.
This is an interactive tool that lets us all work together to push back against dark money and figure out who’s behind the PACs with innocuous sounding names like America PAC (that one is Elon Musk). One of my favorite parts of our conversation involved Judd identifying a add that made an utterly false claim about a conduct and calling to ask the advertiser about it, which led them to promptly back down and stop making the fake claim about a Democratic candidate.
If you’re looking for something you can do, and information you can share with folks with whom it may be difficult to have more pointed political conversations, this one is for you!
We’re in this together,
Joyce
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