The Kamala Harris campaign has been replying on pushing literal fake news in an attempt to make coverage from an already liberal media look more favorable to her.
According to a story first broken by Axios, the Harris’ campaign has been manipulating headlines and descriptions that appear in Google search results to try to appear even more supported by the “mainstream” media.
Their strategy involves the campaign paying for ads on Google, but the ads are made to look like article headlines supporting her from various publications. So instead of an ad reading something along the lines of “vote for Kamala Harris,” they instead make their ad look like an article supporting Harris from a real publication that wrote no such thing. In other words, someone will be scrolling through Google search results and see what appears to be an article from The Associated Press purporting to claim that a Harris presidency will lower costs and raise wages - but no such artixle exists.
Among the outlets they’ve been caught doing this to includes NPR, PBS, the Guardian, Reuters, The Independent, and CBS News are among those reportedly that the campaign has been taking creative liberty
Some examples from Axois’ reporting can be seen below:
Anyone who types any of those article headlines into Google won’t find any actual articles in those publications with such headlines, because they don’t exist. The Harris campaign strategy is unfortunately brilliant in an era where almost nobody reads beyond the headline. The ads did link to real articles, but the headlines were fake.
WDAY Radio, a local news outlet in Fargo, North Dakota, is considering legal action after the Kamala Harris campaign deceptively edited WDAY headlines to make it look like they supported her in an ad campaign, its president told the Daily Caller. WDAY was the only family-owned outlet listed in the report.
“We feel insulted and violated by what was done here,” Steve Hallstrom, the President and Managing Partner of Flag Family Media, which owns WDAY Radio, told the Daily Caller.
“You have a political campaign that used our news brand and our URL to effectively lie to people about the headline we wrote,” Hallstrom said. “They lied to every single person that saw that ad. It’s misleading, it’s dishonest, and it hurts us as the company, our news brand. So as of today, we’re starting to make some calls here. We are considering all of our options here, including legal action.”
The Harris campaign ran three variations of an ad with fake headlines that linked to WDAY’s website.
Such hacks are the mainstream media that the Axios reporter who broke this story, Sara Fischer, then went on to try to explain how the Harris campaign did nothing wrong after the story started picking up traction.
Yesterday, Sara Fischer of Axios threw a fit on CNN over “disinformation” and Elon Musk allowing Trump to “say whatever he wants.”
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 13, 2024
Today, she’s hand-waving away the Kamala Harris campaign editing press headlines in ads to spread disinformation.
Incredible. pic.twitter.com/u69o0RP8dh
Admittedly, I’m not entirely sure what the point is when all the publications their campaign is creating fake stories for are already pumping out endless content fawning over her.
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