Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
by saurik on Friday October 04, 2019 @03:40AM
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You didn't seem to understand the argument, as the person you are responding to is essentially saying "this is already illegal, and that's where that should be solved"; the issue is that in addition to making it illegal, people also seem to believe it should be impossible, which requires not just "people can look at the ad, decide it is false, and then take the person to court and make it go very very badly for them" but also "Facebook should somehow manage to block these ads in the first place, preferably as immediately and automatically as possible", which goes above and beyond "it is illegal" and really requires the "API" version of truth.
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Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
by baddox on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:00AM
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I must not understand, because my understanding is that lying in political ads is absolutely not illegal.
Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
by humanrebar on Friday October 04, 2019 @08:18AM
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Slander is still a civil liability, though there is an understandably high bar to prove slander against a politician.
Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
by bananocurrency on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:35AM
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Correct, you do not understand the argument. Even if it was made explicitly illegal, you can create your own "facts".
Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
by baddox on Friday October 04, 2019 @05:04AM
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I understand that claims can be generated in such a way to make them difficult to verify or dispute. I agree with that part of the parent comment.
My criticism was not aimed at that part of the parent comment, but rather at the suggestion that an absurd “ministry of truth” with a “correctness API“ is necessary to have a system that recognizes that some claims are true and some are not.
Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
by bathtub365 on Friday October 04, 2019 @06:59AM
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How do you see the system working?
Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
by dwild on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:49AM
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> "Facebook should somehow manage to block these ads in the first place, preferably as immediately and automatically as possible"
Nobody said that. Here Facebook know it's false but does nothing against it. It's not a question of efficiency at all.