Can Facebook Still Be Trump's Fundraising Juggernaut?

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The site's parent company announced that Donald Trump would be able to return to the platform with new guardrails on his account. But will Facebook be as lucrative a fundraising tool for the former president given the new limitations on online ad targeting? And will Trump even choose to return to the site?

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, disinformation correspondent Shannon Bond, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

This episode was produced by Elena Moore and Casey Morell. It was edited by Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Research and fact-checking by Devin Speak.

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0:04.9	Just like my favorite NPR politics podcast host do.
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0:11.8	151 PM on Monday the 30th of January.
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0:42.2	I'm Tamra Keith.
0:43.2	I cover the White House.
0:44.2	I'm Dominic Almonton, our senior political editor and correspondent.
0:47.4	So we're coming off a difficult weekend. Americans responded in horror to the terrible
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