Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
by the_reformation on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:43PM
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Television advertising isn't stuck in the dark ages. Political candidates run and create ads targeted at specific counties or districts.
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Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
by lazyasciiart on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:46PM
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Next to Facebook targeting, that is the dark ages.
Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
by philwelch on Monday October 28, 2019 @08:13PM
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True, but that level of targeting isn't completely unprecedented. Direct mail was an extremely targeted form of political advertising and faced zero content regulations. (Much of the targeting was achieved by buying magazine subscription data from magazine publishers; you could target households pretty effectively based on which magazines they subscribed to.)