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UNBIASED Politics

August 14, 2024: Campaign Ads or News Articles? Here's What You Need to Know. Texas Sues GM Over Illegal Driver Data, Google Explains Why Assassination Attempt Search Predictions Were Off, and More.

UNBIASED Politics

Jordan Berman

Education

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to UNBIASED. In today's episode: Harris and Trump Campaigns Using Google Ads to Target Voters. Here's What To Look For (0:35) Texas AG Sues General Motors Over Illegal Acquisition of Driver Data (4:36) Google Explains Why Assassination Attempt Searches Weren't AutoCompleting After Senator Calls for Investigation (8:06) Quick Hitters: Consumer Price Index Falls to 2.9%, Former House Rep. Says She's Been Placed on TSA Watch List, U.S. Sends Congress Notification of $20B Weapons Sale to Israel, Defense Contractor Arrested After Printing Classified Docs and Attempting to Flee (10:27) Support ‘UNBIASED’ on Patreon. Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Jordan on Instagram and TikTok. All sources for this episode can be found here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Unbias.

0:02.0

Your favorite source of Unbias News and Legal Analysis.

0:06.0

Welcome back to Unbias.

0:09.0

Today is Wednesday, August 14th, and this is your daily news rundown. As a reminder if you love the

0:14.5

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0:18.0

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0:24.3

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0:28.6

All of those things really help me out, so thank you very much.

0:31.7

And without further ado, we can get into today's stories

0:35.1

Starting off with something to keep on your election information radar

0:39.6

The Harris campaign has been buying Google ads that feature edited headlines and descriptions

0:46.8

so as to put off the image that mainstream networks like CNN, NPR, and Reuters are writing these headlines

0:53.2

when really it's the Harris campaign making the headline.

0:56.3

Now, Trump is doing something similar,

0:58.1

but his method is a little different

0:59.6

and it's not so extensive,

1:01.4

but I will cover both so that way you're informed as to what both campaigns are doing.

1:05.0

So you've probably seen Google ads in the past, you search for something on Google

1:09.0

and the top one or two search results will look like actual search results, but then you'll see that there's a

1:13.8

sponsored label around or near the search result. It's usually like I said the top one or two

1:19.2

results that are sponsored. That's what the Harris campaign has been doing with mainstream articles.

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