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Nov 1, 2019

The pressure is now on Facebook to ban political ads, too

Twitter’s ban on political advertising is ratcheting up pressure on Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to follow suit. But so far, that doesn’t appear likely to happen. Facebook’s policy is to accept paid political ads without fact-checking them or censoring them, even if they contain lies. And Zuckerberg doubled down on that stand following Twitter’s announcement, […]

Nov 1, 2019

The pressure is now on Facebook to ban political ads, too

Twitter’s ban on political advertising is ratcheting up pressure on Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to follow suit. But so far, that doesn’t appear likely to happen. Facebook’s policy is to accept paid political ads without fact-checking them or censoring them, even if they contain lies. And Zuckerberg doubled down on that stand following Twitter’s announcement, […]

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