Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
by cryptica on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:11AM
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Agreed. I was reading about the Joe Biden story and according to multiple sources, it seems that he did ask the president of Ukraine for that prosecutor to be fired or else they would not receive $1 billion of loans.
Also, it appears to be true that Joe Biden's son was working for one of companies being investigated by the prosecutor.
Maybe it's not a proven fact but it does look suspicious and it's OK for an advertisement to point out this anomaly even if there is uncertainty.
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Re:Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
by tempestn on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:38AM
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Except that the reason the US government wanted Shokin fired was because he was not investigating corruption and companies like Burisma aggressively enough. And it's not like Biden was even the one who came up with the messaging; he was just the one to deliver it. So advertisements stating or implying that the action might have been done to quash an investigation into Burisma (or more egregiously, into Hunter Biden specifically) are not exploring uncertainty in good faith, but are rather intentionally misleading.
Edit: Which isn't to say I think Facebook should be responsible for making these calls.