Facebook: Political ads are ineligible for fact-checking

Posted by josefresco on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:04AM
from the popular.info dept.

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Re:Facebook: Political ads are ineligible for fact-checking by qasimzafar on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:32AM (#21158634)

Because the Republicans will otherwise stop paying Facebook ad dollars

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Re:Facebook: Political ads are ineligible for fact-checking by Porthos9K on Saturday October 05, 2019 @10:35AM (#21165724)

Also, because all political messaging is essentially bullshit in the Frankfurtian sense. Whether a political ad's content is factual is besides the point, because its object is persuasion.

https://youtu.be/lArA7nMIqSI

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