Is this how election interference happens?
I’m uncertain this could classify as election interference. It’s probably the algorithm at work. Either way it’s a bad look.
Wait till you see what shit the BigTech pulls in developing countries, take for example my country, India. Reddit excuses hate speech, so that people keep engaging in a flame war. Similarly, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram also does nothing against such contents. Fuck them all.
What question are you asking here?
It’s not really a pro-Trump election ad, it’s an ad for a Mastodon-based(!) social network, albeit one that’s designed to draw people toward pro-Trump content.
It does suck that Google accepts their ads but I wouldn’t go so far as to call this election interference.
No, that’s paying for advertisements. Note the “sponsored” tag.