VIX LINEA DE FUEGO
8/14/24
6:18 PM
LUIS CARLOS VELEZ: I want to ask you about this, because this is important. An Axios report states that Kamala Harris’s staff are purchasing Google ads which display manipulated headlines and descriptions of news articles, for the purpose of bolstering the vice president’s image. What is your response to this?
MACA CASADO: Look. First of all, this is a practice that is done by every political campaign. This isn’t anything new or innovative. This is something that all political campaigns do. We are absolutely not manipulating any information. We’re showing the headlines, and we put some pieces beneath those headlines wherein we add content. But this is definitely a practice engaged by every campaign.
VELEZ: But doesn’t it seem to you…? Let’s say- if it’s a common political practice, that’s fine, but you who are a new campaign, and you who are speaking to the public, you’re manipulating headlines. This doesn’t make it right…or does it?
CASADO: I’ve already responded, Luis Carlos, this is a practice done by many political campaigns in order to deliver their message to different communities.
VELEZ: Yes. But is that wrong, Maca? Or is that okay?
CASADO: Look. Campaigns have guidelines that they follow. We are doing yet another campaign strategy in order to reach out to voters.
VELEZ: All right.
