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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Big Oil Used Facebook to Push Joe Manchin to Kill Build Back Better
The American Petroleum Institute bought Facebook ads urging residents of Sen. Joe Manchins state to thank him for being a champion of U.S. energy.https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dydy/api-joe-manchin-facebook-build-back-better
Last August, during the hottest summer in U.S. history, the Senate began debating the countrys most ambitious plan ever to fight the climate crisis: President Bidens sweeping Build Back Better bill. The next day, Big Oil swung into action against it. The industry knew exactly who to target: the voters of Sen. Joe Manchin, the all-powerful Democrat who infamously refused to support Build Back Better, and this week, declared the plan dead.
Americas top oil industry group, the American Petroleum Institute, unleashed a Facebook ad campaign urging residents of Manchins state of West Virginia to call his office and thank him for being a champion of U.S. energy. In total, those ads were seen more times in West Virginia than there are registered voters in the state, according to an estimate based on Facebook data made by the climate-focused, London-based think tank InfluenceMap and shared with VICE News.
Big Oil has spent millions promoting fossil fuels on Facebook in recent years, but the American Petroleum Institutewhich is backed by oil majors including ExxonMobil, Shell, and BPhas been particularly blunt about its goal of killing or rolling back key climate and energy provisions of Build Back Better. The campaign included ads with the contact phone numbers for 47 members of Congress and urged Facebook users to call legislators and tell them not to raise taxes on natural gas. According to InfluenceMap estimates, the group spent the most on ads naming Manchin, and those spots got more than twice as many views as any other politician in the campaign.
"The fossil fuel industry has a well-known track record of pushing back against progressive climate policy, Jake Carbone, Senior Data Analyst at InfluenceMap, told VICE News. But whats significant about the industrys campaign against the Build Back Better plan is that it utilizes Facebooks powerful targeting tools to pressure individual members of Congress to vote against it. On Dec. 19, Manchin staged a dramatic appearance on Fox News Sunday to declare that he could not vote for Build Back Better. Afterwards, the Facebook advertising campaign flipped off like a light switch, according to InfluenceMap data.
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How Big Oil Used Facebook to Push Joe Manchin to Kill Build Back Better (Original Post)
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Feb 2022
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Duppers
(28,125 posts)1. They are evil !!!
Blowout:
To quote Rachel:.
The Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth is Big Oil.
It's the subject of her 2019 book.
To quote Rachel:.
The Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth is Big Oil.
It's the subject of her 2019 book.
Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)3. He looks like a grandpa version of a cabbage patch doll.
Emile
(22,856 posts)4. Bwhaha +1