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Re:Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads target... by xbar on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:44PM (#26964889)
Some ads can never be posted on Facebook (prostitution, child pornography, murder for hire, firearms). Facebook is capable of filtering ads. It is mission critical for them to do so. It is the thing they are best at in the history of the known universe: showing the right ad for maximum value and not showing ads that are not of maximum value.

These ads are posted. This is intent.

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Re:Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads target... by Nasrudith on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:55PM (#26964969)
Notice something about those ads excluded? They are simple red line unconditional "no's". Add in judgement calls and there will be fuck-ups. Of course lack of judgement can lead to its own class of fuck ups like offending people for "reject ads for military recruiting because they showed a gun in them".
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Re:Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads target... by sodality2 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:21PM (#26965166)
By intent, I mean facebook does not choose specifically immoral things and it just happens to be super profitable; they show whatever is profitable, which happens to be immoral things. I don't mean "they don't mean to show bad ads" because they do, I mean "they would just as quickly choose another category if it meant more profits".
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