It's Wednesday, August 14th, 2024.

Campaign Kamala is cooking the books or research results in this case.

A mind-your-own-business update with a grandma who got thrown in jail

and why I've been wrong to laugh something off.

Next on the AM update.

This first story, courtesy of Axios the Harris campaign, has been editing news headlines and descriptions within Google search ads that make it appear as if The Guardian, Reuters, CBS News, and other major publishers are on her side.

It's a common practice in the commercial advertising world that doesn't violate Google's policies,

but the ads mimic real news results from search closely enough that they have news outlets caught off guard.

According to Google's ad transparency center, the Trump campaign isn't running these types of ads,

but this technique has been used by campaigns before.

The ads say that they're sponsored, but it's not immediately clear that the text that accompanies real news links was written by campaigns and not by the media publication itself.

Google said the ads don't violate its rules, the misleading

ads, but platforms have in the past wrestled with whether this type of format can spread

so-called misinformation. Here are a few examples of the Kamala Harris campaign running ads

from news websites, but dressing them up to make them appear much more positive in light.

Here's a headline that they edited. VP Harris's economic vision, lower costs and higher wages

from the Associated Press. USA Today, Tim Walz's military service, 24 years in the National Guard.

WDAI Radio now. Harris picks Tim Wall's 215,000 Minnesota families win. So yeah, they're cooking the books or in this

case the search results. My question is, though, Time Magazine just ran a

3,000-word booklet, puffpiece on Kamala Harris, in which she didn't even provide

an interview to them. It's clear the media for weeks now has been doing yeomen's work, carrying the water,

and doing just egregious propaganda on behalf of the Harris campaign.

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