As part of its Election Protection Project, Alethea Group, uncovered a marketing scam targeting Trump supports.
According to research compiled by the Alethea Group, a firm that researches and combats online disinformation, as part of the Election Protection Project—and in collaboration with the Global Disinformation Index, a British think tank—Albbiom’s Snapchat ads are just one front in a sprawling network of political advertisers across multiple social media platforms. Alethea linked the effort to a web of related companies across the country with numerous websites hawking similarly dubious merchandising offers.
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