Mediagazer: Ahead of the 2022 midterms, US political campaigns use voter-profiling companies with vast amounts of data and scores to target ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

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Ahead of the 2022 midterms, US political campaigns use voter-profiling companies with vast amounts of data and scores to target ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon — To help campaigns target ads, voter-profiling firms score millions of Americans on issues like guns, vaccines and QAnon.

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