‘Facebook Was Like a Democratic Institution’: Ben Smith Says There Was ‘Explicit Goal’ to Get Obama Elected
‘And everyone just took for granted in that world that these were college kids, young people, newly on the internet — they were Democrats’
Former BuzzFeed editor-in-chief and New York Times columnist Ben Smith told MSNBC host Alex Wagner on Tuesday that Facebook was “like a Democratic institution” during Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign” and that the “explicit goal” of the “early internet scene” was in many ways to get Obama elected.
(Mediaite)
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