NEW YORK (AP) – A recent series of Facebook video ads for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is using models to portray actual supporters. The ads show a young woman on a beach in Florida, a Hispanic man on a city street in Texas and a bearded hipster in a coffee shop in Washington, D.C., all making glowing, voice-over endorsements of the president. But the people in the videos are actually models in stock footage produced in France, Brazil and Turkey, and available to anyone for a fee. Though the videos include a disclaimer that says “actual testimonial, actor portrayal,” they raise the question why a campaign that can fill arenas with supporters would have to buy stock footage of models to portray them. Trump’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Trump Facebook Ads Use Models
July 3, 2019 5:54 am