Trump Campaign Accused of Using TV, Digital Ads to Deter Black Americans From Voting in 2016 (Report)
Naman Ramachandran A report broadcast and published on Monday by the U.K.’s Channel 4 News alleges that 3.5 million Black American voters were targeted with TV and Facebook ads by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign to deter them from going to the polls. The Trump campaign has denied the allegations, calling them “fake news.”Black voters were targeted with videos that showed Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton referring to Black youth as “super predators” that aired on TV 402 times in October 2016, and saw millions of Facebook hits, the report alleges.“This is fake news,” Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign’s communications director, said in a statement to Variety.