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Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads by jonbronson on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:47PM (#21380846)
It's a fallacy to believe that the ability to determine the truthfulness of the content of an ad is binary. 100% or 0%. It's a spectrum. There are obvious truths, shades of gray, blatant misinformation, and everything in between. At the very least, they should clearly disallow verifiably false information. An advertisement aimed at Black voters with the wrong day for voting? That's clearly voter disinformation aimed at voter suppression. How close Facebook gets to the gray areas is by no means an easy problem, but it's patently false to pretend they can do nothing.
Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads by makomk on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:08PM (#21382239)
Facebook do disallow clear voter suppression ads like that one, though. They have a specific rule banning voter suppression which applies to all advertisers including politicians, and they definitely enforce it. One of the articles going after their hands-off approach to political ads (I think in the Guardian) even specifically attacked them for banning this whilst leaving other lies alone.
Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads by humanrebar on Monday October 28, 2019 @07:31PM (#21382908)
Disinformation about voting dates or choices seems out of bounds. But any negative ad is at a basic level voter suppression.
Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads by paulddraper on Monday October 28, 2019 @09:56PM (#21383647)
> It's a spectrum

The parent comment agrees very strongly with that.

> verifiably false information

Look at Snopes for an example. Relatively few assertions are "pants on fire" false.

Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads by DiogenesKynikos on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:32AM (#21385957)
Empowering Snopes to effectively censor Facebook by deciding what is true and false seems incredibly dangerous to me.