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The candidates are not honest. The voters are not educated. Not all press is objective. And the social platforms don't want responsibility to police the truth. Unless one of these groups steps up, democracy may be doomed.
Facebook, Twitter, & YouTube should stop selling all campaign ads until they develop a safer approach or laws require it. Otherwise we’ll keep seeing campaign ads like “[Salacious lie] so donate me” to buy more campaign ads...
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Takeaways from Zuckerberg's testimony:
-Fb will announce its News section this week
-He argued for Libra approval because China's digital Renminbi is coming soon
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Josh Constine
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Facebook looks increasingly hypocritical as it launches 8 ways to block misinformation while allowing deceptive campaign ads tcrn.ch/2MY6oGI
Solutions to Fb political ad misinfo:
-Block all campaign ads
-Allow only generic campaign ads with no assertions
-Label campaign ads with fact-checks
Not a solution:
-Doing nothing (aka what Fb does now)
techcrunch.com/2019/10/13/ban…
Zuckerberg will need a stronger defense for allowing political ad lies than no facts, just anecdotes from unnamed sources:
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Josh Constine
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Zuckerberg argues not doing business in China lets Facebook fight for free expression, an IRL subtweet of the NBA & Blizzard techcrunch.com/2019/10/17/zuc…
Takeaways from Zuckerberg's talk
-Banning political ads would supposedly favor incumbents
-Fb spends more on security now than its revenue at IPO ($5B in 2012)
-He wants to link American companies policing misinfo with Chinese censorship
techcrunch.com/2019/10/17/zuc…
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@Techmeme What Zuckerberg didn't explain was how banning political ads would favor incumbents when they spend the most...
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