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