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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by MarkMc on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:39AM (#16685573)
Do we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater? We can have regulation that bans the use personal information for political ads but allows it for toothpaste ads
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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by socialist_coder on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:25AM (#16688670)
I hope so. My concern is that it is hard to define what a political ad is sometimes. For example, if you have an ad that claims that some specific ethnic group gets food stamps more than another, is that a political ad? Because those are the kinds of ads that Russia was buying.
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