{"id":1563,"date":"2008-12-02T10:17:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2008-12-02T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:17:25","slug":"who%e2%80%99s-paying-to-promote-rfk-jr-for-senate-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Paying to Promote RFK, Jr. for Senate? (cont.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I contacted Michael Pinto, the creator of the Facebook group “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for the US Senate<\/a>” yesterday to follow-up my post asking who was paying to promote the group on Facebook<\/a>. I had seen some ads – as had a few other people who had blogged about it. And the number of people in the group shot up significantly over a few days – which led me to presume that there was quite a lot of advertising.<\/p>\n

But Michael Pinto assured me in a Facebook message that:<\/p>\n

I’m paying for those ads out of my own pocket: I figured if I wasn’t willing to spend at least $100 of my own cash then it wasn’t a worthwhile cause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Later, he offered:<\/p>\n

PS If you need proof I’d be glad to share a screen shot of the ad campaign with you…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pinto also tells me he was responsible for the “Red State Socialism<\/a>” graph that made it onto Digg.<\/p>\n

My key takeaway: It’s time to start advertising on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I contacted Michael Pinto, the creator of the Facebook group “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for the US Senate” yesterday to follow-up my post asking who was paying to promote the group on Facebook. I had seen some ads – as had a few other people who had blogged about it. And the number of people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[580,1045,1044,1043],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-web","tag-facebook","tag-michael-pinto","tag-rfk-jr","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-pd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}