Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook...
by andrewflnr on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:23AM
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More like "abuse is hard, but let's at least get this super easy case right". Also, yeah, don't put words in my mouth.
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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook...
by eridius on Thursday November 01, 2018 @12:33AM
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Getting the super easy case right doesn't justify completely failing at the entire fundamental premise of the feature, which is to inform viewers that an ad was paid for by a particular political entity. When anyone can buy an ad that claims to be paid for by a senator, this alleged feature in fact becomes misinformation, and quite dangerous misinformation at that as it's got Facebook's seal of approval.
If Facebook cannot get this feature right 99.9999% of the time, they shouldn't be doing it. And it seems they're getting it right literally 0% of the time (barring Zuckerberg of course, but he's not on the ballot this election so that's irrelevant). This is so bad it should be a huge scandal; has Facebook gone back and vetted all of their political ads yet to make sure nobody's been taking advantage of this?