Someone working in the US Capitol this past week clicked on an advertisement for erotic fan fiction featuring Senator Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) in a set up for a feature on internet tracking for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
The show did a deep dive into how companies sell enough of your personal data to identify each person individually and how advertisers can target people or others could do it for more nefarious reasons. … yadda yadda yadda …
To prove their point, producers purchased data hitting men 45 years and older within a five mile radius of the Capitol and who had searched for a specific set of terms, which Oliver read out to be “divorce, massage, hair loss and mid-life crisis.”
They created ads for three topics: “Marriage shouldn’t be a prison.” “Can You Vote Twice?” and an enticement ad for Ted Cruz erotic fan fiction.
The result: the Ted Cruz erotic fan fiction ad was “distressingly popular.” And three people clicked on ads who were working in or around the Capitol building, with each person clicking on a different ad. Someone in the Capitol… we can only speculate who… clicked on the Ted Cruz erotic fan fiction ad. Lauren Boebert? Madison Cawthorn? Marjorie Taylor Greene? Nahhhhh… we know who it was. (Oliver didn’t divulge the person’s identity.)