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Kamala’s Team is Editing Headlines Without Permission – HotAir

Throughout her time as Veep and during her nascent presidential campaign, I will confess that I’ve never considered Kamala Harris to be the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. But we have to give credit where due, and her campaign team has come up with an underhanded scheme that no other political outlet seems to have thought of, at least to my knowledge. It turns out that they’ve been editing the headlines and introductory paragraphs of articles from major news outlets to make them appear more favorable to and supportive of Harris. You’re probably thinking that such a thing is impossible or at least illegal, but as it turns out, it is apparently neither because of the clever way they went about it. They’re using a feature in Google’s online advertising system to do it. (NY Post)

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign team has been silently editing news headlines in Google…

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