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blue_jay

(310 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 12:16 PM Jun 8

Is anyone else getting Hillsdale college ads on You Tube or elsewhere for Constitution 101 course?

It seems to be selling the notion that the "administrative state" is not what the founders and writers of the constitution intended...surely part of their plan to re-educate and mis-educate young Americans with distorted versions of history to get people to vote against democracy.

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Is anyone else getting Hillsdale college ads on You Tube or elsewhere for Constitution 101 course? (Original Post) blue_jay Jun 8 OP
If you see that shit, block it and report it to Youtube. Initech Jun 8 #1
How do I block it? blue_jay Jun 8 #2
Click on the 3 dots. Hit the menu item that says "report". Initech Jun 8 #3
No. maxsolomon Jun 8 #4
Not On YouTube ProfessorGAC Jun 8 #5
I keep getting spam emails from them bif Jun 8 #6
Lucky you...😬 blue_jay Jun 8 #10
Concerns me that they are so actively trying to distort beliefs blue_jay Jun 8 #7
I got them, but I don't think it was within the last Ilsa Jun 8 #8
I regularly get flyers in the mail for courses and trips karynnj Jun 8 #9
I remember the initial onslaught of ads that came through just before blue_jay Jun 8 #11

Initech

(109,618 posts)
1. If you see that shit, block it and report it to Youtube.
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 12:33 PM
Jun 8

If they get enough reports, they will be demonetized. Fuck Hillsdale College.

ProfessorGAC

(77,668 posts)
5. Not On YouTube
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 02:33 PM
Jun 8

I'm youtube premium, so I don't see ads.
But, I've seen that ad on Story TV, History Channel, & AHC.
So I know the galling drivel you're talking about.

blue_jay

(310 posts)
7. Concerns me that they are so actively trying to distort beliefs
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 04:33 PM
Jun 8

with seemingly intellectual analysis of history. Not sure how many uninformed or naive people would fall for it and become the ma ga youth. Feel if I flag it, it might only serve to put a target on my account and then I would never realize the many ways these groups are trying to warp reality to achieve their authoritarian agenda. Like not knowing when someone is lying about you behind your back so to speak.

When I click the ad link about the ad, it says the ad was chosen based on google's assessment of my interests. Guarantee that's not a good assessment. Came through under TH youtube stream. So does Goo gle not know the difference between biased history and real?

Ilsa

(64,740 posts)
8. I got them, but I don't think it was within the last
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 06:32 PM
Jun 8

few weeks. I do my best to ignore them. Is it possible for ad to measure how long you pay attention or track eye movement?

karynnj

(61,218 posts)
9. I regularly get flyers in the mail for courses and trips
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 06:47 PM
Jun 8

Immediately into recycle. We've gotten them for most of the 13 years that we've lived in Burlington, VT, so I guess the post office benefits and it costs them.

blue_jay

(310 posts)
11. I remember the initial onslaught of ads that came through just before
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:30 PM
Jun 8

the first time the dehydrated pumpkin got elected, more on FB than YT. It was incessant. Wish I had understood better back then what was going on. In retrospect, I figure they were select targeting certain people and other people got nothing so the greater populus and political machines were none the wiser, or at least that is my hope. Would hate to think they were aware and ignored it...

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