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Ohio Midterms Prove ‘Pink Slime’ News Is Bipartisan

Columbia Journalism Review · Kali Bomeli · last updated

NorthStar Civic Media promises “independent local reporting.” Its founder worked on Democratic campaigns, and Democratic funders spent more than a million dollars on Meta ads promoting one of its sites.

Last month, when the Ohio gubernatorial campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican, released an ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic challenger, Amy Acton, now the governor-elect, two websites styled as local news outlets covered the story from opposite political perspectives. The Buckeye Bulletin paid to boost the video on Facebook, while TiffinOhio.net ran stories on the Republican backlash, including a call from Governor Mike DeWine to pull the ad. 

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