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Concealed Carry scammers spent $2m on gunhumper scare-ads on Facebook during the 2018 midterms
Monday November 19, 2018. 08:12 PM , from BoingBoing
Concealed Online is an anonymously owned (the owner won't divulge his identity due to fear of reprisals) company whose customers complain scammed them by tricking them into taking its online curriculum for Virginia's farcical easy concealed carry permits, without divulging that these permits are useless in the rest of America.
During the 2018 midterm season, Concealed Online bought $2,000,000 worth of ads on Facebook that warned Republicans that a coming Blue Wave would result in Democrats 'coming for their guns' and urging them to get their concealed carry permits before that happened (again, without prominently divulging that these permits were useless outside of Virginia). We know about the ads because of Facebook's voluntary transparency measures about political ads. Concealed Online gets an F from the Better Business Bureau. Concealed Online completed Facebook's 'political advertiser' registration, and Facebook says that its ads did not violate Facebook's standards. Instead, they feature urgent warnings, like, 'The election is just DAYS AWAY and Gun Control Lawmakers could do a FULL STOP
https://boingboing.net/2018/11/19/fleecing-the-frightened.html
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