Campaign time of year is heating up , and in Michigan ’s 3rd congressional district the popular primary battle pits an entrenched 60 - year - old against a young social media upstart . Guess whose campaign has more Facebook Likes ? Old human being Steve Pestka ’s . He ’s got the best Facebook friendsmoney can bribe .
Eclectablogreportsthe singular rise of Steve Pestka ’s Facebook popularity . Pestka has been running a pretty traditional crusade against Trevor Thomas , who ’s run a “ more modern effort ” that “ ask profound use of social media to create a bombilation and invoke to a wider cross - discussion section of voters . ” Then a few week ago , Pestka ’s Facebook popularity rocket from just over 1000 likes to some 7500 . Impressive ! Er , except it’spretty wary :
But what ’s even stranger than the spate is the demographics of his followers . If you look at the screenshot above , you ’ll see his “ Most democratic eld grouping ” is 13 - 17 year - old and his most popular city is in Israel . In April , it was kids in the years range of 13 - 17 from the Philippines :
While this is barely definitive cogent evidence that Pestka ’s drive fit on a Facebook Like shopping fling , it ’s hard to think of any other plausible account . Eclectablog spoke to the Pestka military campaign , which claim that the meteorologic rise was due to nontargeted Faebook advertizing . Yeah , sure , right . Dear inexperienced social media people of the world : Do n’t endeavor to be sneaky . We will catch you . [ EclectablogviaSean Carlson ]
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