Stoking fears of an immigrant invasion with Facebook ads

[Trump’s reelection campaign has posted more than 2,000 ads on Facebook since January that push the idea of an immigrant “invasion.”]( According to the New York Times, Trump has spent an estimated $1.25 million on Facebook ads about immigration and roughly $5.6 million in total on Facebook ads since late March. The Times writes that it hasn’t found evidence that Trump’s “invasion” ads influenced the El Paso shooting suspect and author of the manifesto posted to 8chan, but “through his speeches, tweets and campaign ads, [Trump] elevated the idea of an ‘invasion,’ once a fringe view often espoused by white nationalists, into the public discourse.” - $1.25 million is a lot: The Times writes that compared to Democratic presidential candidates, Trump’s Facebook ad spend is significantly more. No Democrat has spent more than $2.1 million on Facebook ads in the same time period. Only Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and former Vice President Joe Biden topped $2 million through Saturday. And Trump’s spending on immigration-specific ads was more than the entirety of what Sen. Kamala Harris, one of the best-funded Democrats, spent on Facebook. [[Thomas Kaplan / The New York Times](] [The Apple Card has arrived.](The new credit card, supported by Goldman Sachs, began a “preview rollout” this week, and will become available to all iPhone users in the US later this month, according to The Verge. The card will be easier to qualify for than some other high-profile credit cards like Chase Sapphire or American Express Platinum. Apple says the goal is to “be broadly accessible to every iPhone owner, so the signup requirements will not be as strict as those cards.” - It’s pretty, it’s sleek, but it’s still a credit card: The Verge notes that just like any other credit card, while it’s easy to sign up for, it’s not that easy to get rid of it: “Canceling an Apple Card requires messaging or calling Goldman Sachs.” - And users should remember: “Apple is providing a lot of the user experience of the card, but the card itself is still a credit card issued by Goldman Sachs.” We’ll be waiting to see how the user experience of the card matches up with the high expectations of Apple customers. [[Nilay Patel / The Verge](] [Everything that police departments and officers say about Ring has to be approved by the surveillance camera maker.]([Ring has partnerships with 225 law enforcement agencies in the US.](Vice found that Ring shared a spreadsheet with police officers at a Topeka, Kansas, department that contains 46 standard comments that they could use when posting on social media about the surveillance company. In a statement, Ring says the comments are supposed to be reference material for police. But some “sample police comments encourage users to share camera footage with police, call and email police officers, and encourage friends to download Neighbors.” And some suggested responses explicitly advertise Ring products. - The big deal: Vice points out “that these arrangements enlist police departments as a de facto extension of Ring’s corporate PR.” Fight for the Future’s deputy director makes the argument that “law enforcement is supposed to answer to elected officials and the public, not to public relations operatives from a profit-obsessed multinational corporation.” [[Caroline Haskins / Vice News](] [Who can you trust on the internet to keep you safe?](No one, according to Recode’s Kara Swisher. Swisher writes that “one tech company after another fails at protecting us” by taking advantage of our personal data and shirking responsibility for hate speech on their platforms. She says “the business models are part of the problem, and they can’t be fixed with endless patches.” Today, we have “giant digital cities that were built without adequate police, fire, medical or safety personnel, decent street signs or any kind of rules that would make them work smoothly. And, so, we feel unsafe — because we are.” [[Kara Swisher / The New York Times](] [Insert alt text here] [America has a terrible digital divide. Elizabeth Warren has a plan for that too.]( Warren introduced a plan that would allocate $85 billion in federal funds toward developing broadband networks. [[Shirin Ghaffary](] [Insert alt text here] [30 to 50 feral hogs, explained.]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Manage your [email preferences]( to receive fewer emails, or [unsubscribe]( to stop receiving all emails from Vox. Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.