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Facebook thinks campaign ads aren’t fake news – that’s wrong
- Tuesday | 15th October, 2019
Which is ironic, as political speeches and campaign ads are often textbook exercises in misleading and false information. Apart from the “newsworthy” angle, Facebook’s other justification for not vetting campaign ads for accuracy is that no one else does it. While print and broadcast ads for commercial products and services are governed by truth-in-advertising regulations in the US, political ads are not. For one thing, unlike Facebook, TV stations are legally required to run ads that come from candidates. Also, TV ads don’t have the scale that social media platforms do in terms of reach and distribution.
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