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Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of... by nfoz on Monday April 09, 2018 @12:27PM (#16794435)
This crafty term "political or issue ads". Is that a legal / enforceable term, or is this something that Facebook gets to decide?

Whatever it is, we're going to see that "ads which influence the public for political aims" are going to bleed juuuust on the other edge of that definition.

Also interesting that Facebook's response to this issue is to collect more data -- this time about "advertisers with specific political agendas", which seems like an interesting database to mine (although maybe not that hard to collect, idk).

Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of... by JumpCrisscross on Monday April 09, 2018 @12:49PM (#16794681)
> Is that a legal / enforceable term, or is this something that Facebook gets to decide?

In this context, Facebook decides. Broadly, the FEC has jurisdiction over defining and regulating "electioneering communications" [1].

[1] https://transition.fec.gov/pages/brochures/spec_notice_broch...

Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of... by gt_ on Monday April 09, 2018 @03:23PM (#16796098)
Nevermind that Facebook is precisely an “advertiser with specific political agendas”