Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads

Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads by baddox on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:00AM (#21155714)

I must not understand, because my understanding is that lying in political ads is absolutely not illegal.

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Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads by humanrebar on Friday October 04, 2019 @08:18AM (#21156832)

Slander is still a civil liability, though there is an understandably high bar to prove slander against a politician.

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Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads by bananocurrency on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:35AM (#21155873)

Correct, you do not understand the argument. Even if it was made explicitly illegal, you can create your own "facts".

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Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads by baddox on Friday October 04, 2019 @05:04AM (#21155993)

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.

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Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads by bathtub365 on Friday October 04, 2019 @06:59AM (#21156468)

How do you see the system working?

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