David Mowery, a Montgomery-based political consultant who helped Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Bob Vance's 2012 campaign against Moore, said: "Does your average voter know what that means? I doubt it."
The ads were designed by Texas-based Harris Media, a consultant that counts Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich and UKIP among its past clients. (Google refused to run some of the AfD’s ads, notably those of a website attributing the German Christmas market attack to Angela Merkel. Google executives also refused to meet with AfD officials. Facebook officials, in contrast, met with AfD, and ended up with the money AfD was intending to spend with Google.)
Twitter Says It Has Cracked Down on Russian Accounts
Twitter tells federal congressional investigators that, over the preceding month, it has shut down 201 accounts tied to the Russian operatives who also posted thousands of political ads on Facebook, The Washington Post reports. “The company also found three accounts from the news site RT — which Twitter linked to the Kremlin — that spent $274,100 in ads on Twitter’s platform in 2016.”