He’s spending money on the social network to fight impeachment.
The ads have been viewed between 16 to 18 million times in the past seven daysPresident Trump ran more than 1,800 Facebook ads mentioning “impeachment” over the past week and spent up to $2 million in the process, according tohave been viewed between 16 million and 18 million times in the past seven days. She also estimated that Trump spent between $600,000 and $2 million during that period of time.
In the ads, Trump is asking Facebook users to join the “Official Impeachment Defense Task Force” to “know who stood with me when it mattered most,” among other messages. According to the analysis, vice president Mike Pence’s Facebook page joined in the effort and spent over $700,000 between September 22 and 28. One of his ads reads,"The Democrats thrive on silencing and intimidating my supporters, like YOU. They want to take YOUR VOTE away."
The point of the ads is to collect users’ contact information and understand where they stand on different campaign issues, said Edelson. Nick Clegg, the former U.K. deputy prime minister, is Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and communications.
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