Chat Transcript: Targeting the Electorate

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October 30, 2012
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Nathan Tobey

The campaigns have more information about you then ever before. What are they doing with it?

In The Digital Campaign, the PBS Newshour’s Hari Sreenivasan investigates how the presidential campaigns are using that data, and controversial new tactics, to target voters this election.

Join the PBS Newshour, FRONTLINE and ITVS for a live screening of the film today at 7 pm ET, followed by a chat with correspondent Hari Sreenivasan.

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We hope you’ll join us.

Nathan Tobey

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