Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:38PM
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You would need to also ban all mentions of the candidate's name in media. Otherwise, a billionaire could get around this by buying a newspaper or tv or radiostation and run programs praising the candidate and maligning the opposition.
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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes
by rchaud on Friday February 14, 2020 @03:40PM
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It's already happening. The Bezos-owned Washington Post's Opinions section has been, shall we say, skeptical of the Democratic front-runner in the two primaries/caucuses so far, resulting in this humorous juxtaposition of two stories written by the same columnist:
Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes
by munk-a on Friday February 14, 2020 @04:34PM
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A billionaire would need to direct the newspaper to carry out such actions - if they were directing the newspaper in such a manner it would be a campaign donation, giving a candidate a ferrari counts as a donation since you're giving them something of value, even if the campaign didn't actively solicit the donation - in theory these sorts of media tricks already fall under unrecorded campaign donations that the FEC should be going after, in practice the FEC has no teeth.