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Whitney Kimball Dec 03, 2019 at 07:00. 2 comments

Donald Trump to Freak Out About Political Ads on Google in 3, 2, 1

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Donald Trump clearly doesn’t watch CBS, because if he did, he’d be standing on a tarmac in front of a chopper, screaming about yesterday’s 60 Minutes report. For an interview with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, the program found that Google and YouTube collected the Trump campaign’s money for more than 300 video ads before removing them days later. The evidence can be found in Google’s public...

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Tebow Kneeled First Dec 03, 2019 at 07:09

Bah. Maybe. But I doubt we’ll get anything coherent as there is absolutely zero chance Trump has any idea what it means.

Stephen Miller, on the other hand...

Manic Otti Dec 03, 2019 at 07:31

This could easily be solved by banning all internet video ads. Just sayin’.

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Adam Clark Estes Dec 03, 2019 at 00:45. 2 comments

When Asked About Trump Dinner, Zuckerberg Is Suddenly a Big Fan of Privacy

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan recently sat down with CBS This Morning’s Gayle King for a conversation about the future of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a limited liability company that wants “to accelerate progress.” More interesting than the very wealthy couple’s unusual attempt at philanthropy, however, was Zuckerberg’s response to a question about his secret White House dinner with...

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ManchuCandidate Dec 03, 2019 at 00:56

Zuck isn’t the character Jesse Eisenberg played in the Social Network . He’s Jesse Eisenberg’s interpretation of Lex Luthor.

Lost credentials again Dec 03, 2019 at 01:00

Zuckerberg has always been a fan of his own privacy.

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Tom McKay Nov 27, 2019. 8 comments

Facebook Loses Only Fact-Checking Partner in the Netherlands Over Lies in Political Ads

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Facebook has lost its only fact-checking partner in the Netherlands, Dutch digital newspaper NU.nl, over its policy of allowing politicians to openly lie in ads on the platform, according to an article on NPO 3.

NU.nl’s decision to bail comes amid widespread blowback over the Facebook policy. Critics, including some of its own employees , have argued it incentivises online disinformation...

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Times up, time to leave! Nov 27, 2019

In all seriousness what is the actual point of having a fact checking service involved at all? They have clearly stated that whether political ads are truthful or not isn’t their business, that people should be free to judge that themselves. So why is a ny other content different?

People are supposed to be able to tell the difference between truth and lies in carefully crafted political propaganda specifically designed to deceive yet they won’t be able tell if some other crap posted is truth or lies? How exactly does this critical power work for some things and not others?

Facebook have played their hand , they condone lying, no surprise really so why keep up the pretense?

The Actual RootWyrm Nov 27, 2019

Because keeping up the pretense of being ‘neutral’ and a source of ‘truth’ drives clicks and in turn drives ad revenue. That’s what it’s all about. That completely false veneer of legitimacy to keep the 50+ “CHEMTRAILS ARE REAL” “EPSTEIN DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF” crowd clicking obsessively.

Spoutinwyzer Nov 28, 2019

O ptics/Appearances. and because people will forget about their stance on facts.

AlphaLolz Nov 27, 2019

How about a dose of English. I ncentivises is not a word. Incents is.

Times up, time to leave! Nov 27, 2019

3rd person present: incentivises

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incentivise . The boss incentivises the workforce by offering bonuses.

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Victoria Song Nov 22, 2019. 4 comments

Google Will Restrict Political Ads Worldwide Starting in 2020

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Everything about digital political ads, from their truthfulness to even their design , has been a hot-button issue for the past few months. Facebook and Twitter have already weighed in with their stances, and now Google has also announced that it will restrict how political groups can target audiences starting early next year.

In a nutshell, Google’s decided that political advertisers can...

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BlueTARDIS Nov 22, 2019

The amount of money spent to brainwash us into voting for Dirtbag A instead of Dirtbag B is just depressing.

Ugh. Nov 22, 2019

“ Both sides” aside, yep.

Problem isn’t necessarily with political spending. Problem is that it works.

Fieryrebirth Nov 22, 2019

The sad reality. It does show how powerful these companies are.

faithful-dushness Nov 22, 2019

i say all ads are political, business is politics

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Tom McKay Nov 21, 2019. 16 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Had Undisclosed Meeting With Donald Trump, Peter Thiel Amid Furor on Political Ads

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had an undisclosed meeting with Donald Trump at the White House in October, not long after Facebook quietly eased its policies to let politicians lie in ads and as intense pressure was building on the company to roll that change back, NBC News reported on Wednesday.

An NBC source said that ultra-conservative chairman of cyber-intelligence firm Palantir and...

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seysmebitches Nov 21, 2019

I’m really torn. I want to eat the rich but they all seem either too stringy or too fatty. Ah well, the things I do for society.

David E. Davis Nov 21, 2019

just remember fat renders and adds flavor.

The Actual RootWyrm Nov 21, 2019

Feeding them to your pets is equally valid.

flyfunner5 Nov 21, 2019

Fuckerburg would sell his own pet dog if he thought he was getting top dollar for it, damn this greedy asshole, I hope he knows how history will look at him.

AEchinoderm Nov 21, 2019

He’d have to sell it to Thiel, though, ‘cause Trump is a notorious dog-hater.

OhioGrown2 Nov 21, 2019

Who would have thought a guy that brags about sexually assaulting women, a guy who made his fortune off a site about comparing women’s looks, and a guy who rapes and steals blood from young boys, would have so much in common.

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Dell Cameron Nov 16, 2019. 5 comments

Twitter Details Its Political Ad Ban as Civil Rights Groups Ask, What About the Nazis?

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Twitter on Friday revealed the final details of a plan to restrict political ads across its platform, saying it would prohibit political content in paid ads from candidates and political parties—while clarifying it would allow others that touch on politics, so long as they are “caused based.”

Twitter will no longer accept ads promoting any type of legislation, ballot measure, referendum, or...

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Tebow Kneeled First Nov 16, 2019

Alright so first off fuck Nazis. But second... Okay I dunno I was going to say something about how you shouldn't downplay the significance of one good stride because there are other bad things that you don't like but my brain kept coming back to "fuck Nazis".

Sassy After Death Nov 16, 2019

never go wrong with “Fuck Nazis!”

and just because

Mr. Damage Nov 17, 2019

Seriously. We should all tweet Punch Nazis in the balls until they cry or something something.

Times up, time to leave! Nov 16, 2019

Soooo, they will ban paid political ads but not politicians who may say political untruths? Curious...

Oh and yeah, fuck Nazis!

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Alyse Stanley Nov 02, 2019. 8 comments

Facebook Says UK Political Candidates Are Cool To Lie Too. Joy.

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American politicians aren’t the only ones Facebook’s given free rein to lie in political ads on its platform. Per a CNN report, the company’s extending its widely panned policy across the pond as well, right in time for the UK’s general election. And here I thought I’d have to wait a whole year to see the fallout of massive false advertising campaigns.

In September, Facebook extended its

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MisterPiggins Nov 02, 2019

Facebook: Don’t Trust Anything You See

Times up, time to leave! Nov 02, 2019

Definitely agree , when anything posted could be a lie you must assume everything is a lie. Making anything posted worthless, pretty much sums Facebook up huh?

MisterPiggins Nov 02, 2019

I’d say it was unintended consequences, but this is a blindingly obvious outcome. And then there’s Twitter washing it’s hands of it altogether.

flogician Nov 02, 2019

Someone needs to push this to its logical extreme and start running ads like “vaccines cause autism. Trump will put an end to this and protect your children. Trump 2020.”

“Cats are creating an ecological crisis. Help us stamp out this scourge and create a cat-free America. Donate today at ElizabethWarren.com.”

In fact, just create hundreds of false ads. Churn them out until this farce is economically unviable for Facebook to continue.

kingwolf Nov 02, 2019

“ New research shows that young boys that look at Trump too often have a higher risk of turning gay. This is a political ad on the internet so it’s definitely true.”

brontosaurian Nov 02, 2019

Water makes you turn gay and liberal to counteract this drink 1 cup of Drano.

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Matt Novak Oct 31, 2019. 23 comments

Open Channel: Let's Talk About the Big Social Media News of the Month

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It’s been an absolutely bonkers month for social media companies like Facebook and Twitter, with Facebook admitting that it allows politicians to lie in ads on the platform and Twitter opening the floodgates to show users more ads than ever . Just yesterday, Twitter even announced that it was banning all political ads , something that Facebook has refused to do.

And it’s not just Facebook and...

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xMRNUTTYx Oct 31, 2019

I was radicalized by punk rock and Deadspin.

And while the former certainly put a bug in my mind about social justice, the disparity between rich and poor, and a general distrust for authority, I still spent most of my teens and twenties as one of those privileged white Libertarian-leaning straight dudes.

I like sports and I like nerdy shit and when I found Deadspin a decade-plus ago, it certainly fit into the things I liked. I didn’t expect it to change the way I thought about the world, and I definitely didn’t expect that change to happen when I was entering my 30s.

Deadspin taught me about labor and Deadspin taught me the difference between a millionaire playing a game and a billionaire hoarding riches. Deadspin taught me about public stadium scams. Deadspin taught me that my experience wasn’t everyone else’s. Deadspin taught me about Pokemon (kind of. Miss you, Ashley!). Deadspin made the .

Deadspin taught me about Gawker and Jezebel and Splinter. Deadspin- and Roth specifically- taught me more about our corrupt, fascist, racist president than any touted news organization could.

Deadspin taught me about fucking Gamergate.

Deadspin- and by that I mean Barry and Ley and Scocca and Ashley and Diana and Drew and Marchman and Roth and jesus there are so many- changed the way I view the world. Deadspin made me a more compassionate, understanding person. Someone who is far more self-reflecting about how I am treated and how others are.

Deadspin made me a better person.

I’m going to miss that place and I’m going to miss the interactions we had in the comments sections. I’m not sure how often I’ll see some of y’all anymore but if it’s not a lot, good fucking luck navigating this shit world, made shittier by some dipshits at the top who bought something they clearly don’t fucking understand.

Love you guys.

borbert Oct 31, 2019

The sudden death of the comments section is definitely going to be the death of deadspin.

Kumicho Oct 31, 2019

Pretty sure that's only temporary. The bigger issue is that just about everybody has quit over there.

LOAD"*", 8, 1 Oct 31, 2019

Hi, fuck your executives for murdering deadspin.

That’s all I got.

NameIwillRegret Oct 31, 2019

I also saw that Deadspin no longer has comments.

I believe that if free speech gets taken down, it should go down swinging. In that spirit, Jim Spanfeller is a pig fucker. A lot of people are saying he’s the biggest pig fucker of all time. I’m impressed that he is able to maintain a glorious career as a corporate overlord, given that it clearly has not taken time away from his pig fucking . Spanfeller is a sight to behold, whether he is boldly running a media company into the ground or heading down to the sty to fuck a pig. He is a hero of American business, leaving no dissenting voice un- silenced and no pig orifice un-fucked.

God bless you sir. As a fellow mediocre white man, seeing you fail upwards has inspired me to also lay waste to the good things around me in order to satisfy my gnawing sense of inadequacy. So few of us get to leave this world a better place than we found it, while also feverishly fucking every pig we can get our hands on.

borbert Oct 31, 2019

I agree, he’s definitely a pigfucker who’s taking a successful business and media outlet and flushing it directly down the shitter.

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Tom McKay Oct 31, 2019. 18 comments

Jack Dorsey Takes Obvious Opportunity to Backstab Facebook With Twitter Political Ad Ban

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Twitter on Wednesday announced a blanket ban on all political and issue-based advertising across its site, with CEO Jack Dorsey stating in a series of tweets that the company had decided to do so because “paying for reach” forces “highly optimized and targeted political messages on people.”

Dorsey added that political and issue ads present challenges including “machine learning-based...

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Akinetopsia Oct 31, 2019

I see that all comments are now disabled on Deadspin after that dickhead Jim Spanfeller ( jim@g-omedia.com ) fired Barry Petchesky and the resulting shitshow.

This place is falling apart. It doesn’t bode well for the future, s o to all the current and previous writers and the community that made me come back every day for the past 10 years:

Thank you.

Reading you guys often put a smile on my face — when not literally making me burst out laughing at the office — and I was looking forward reading or discussing with the people in the comments below, even through the many quirky iterations of kinja. Those fucking clueless corporate ghouls are destroying everything that made this place truly unique and fun, and they absolutely don’ t care . The only important thing in their eyes is profit , at the expense of everything else .

So guys, know that you have the support of us readers whatever happens next, whether you choose to fight or ditch this place. However, I think we all need a new, open and independent, reader-funded cooperative platform. Heck , you know what? I’m a software developer, and there’s a few of us here. Pretty sure we could cobble up something at least as functional as kinja ;)

Tebow Kneeled First Oct 31, 2019

I’d be down. Fuck anyone saying "learn to code" today, but I have some of them skills. This is could be that side project I been looking for (fucking beer app was going nowhere).

Akinetopsia Oct 31, 2019

Yeah. I’ve been a dev for the past .. uh... 19 years now? Fuck, I guess that makes me an old. Of those 12 or so have been spent bui lding web platforms from the ground up so I ’m not exactly a newcomer . I got fed up and switched to application dev but for a passion project I ’d be down too .

Jeffinitely Oct 31, 2019

Deadspin Forever

ICallHimGamblor Oct 31, 2019

Amen.

Blockchain and Blockchain Accessories Oct 31, 2019

Fuck Great Hill, Private Equity, Jim Spunkfeller, Prince Maidemant, Jason Whitlock, The Big Wet President , and every shithead that Deadspin so rightfully went after.

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Tom McKay Oct 23, 2019. 11 comments

Sheryl Sandberg: We Let Politicians Lie in Facebook Ads for the 'Discourse,' Not the Money

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Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg denied that the company’s forays into political ads⁠ have anything to do with financial gain at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Political ads have quickly become one of the most toxic parts of the Facebook advertising ecosystem, with the company and other major social media firms refusing to take down ads that...

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Tebow Kneeled First Oct 23, 2019

“It’s not for the money, let’s start there.” Okay.

FUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU

yes it is.

ManchuCandidate Oct 23, 2019

Follow the money... and influence.

If Warren gets the Dem nod then FB will be all about the horny grannie and her sex machines.

Tebow Kneeled First Oct 23, 2019

You know what, I'll take it.

Bring Back Duckman! Oct 23, 2019

She leans in and says “yeah, it’s the money we get from knowing how gullible you are ”.

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Matt Novak Jul 03, 2019. 20 comments

Trump Campaign Uses Stock Video of 'Supporters' in Latest Facebook Ads

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Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag.Click here to view original GIFA stock video actor appearing as “Thomas in Washington” in a Facebook ad for President Donald Trump’s re-election in 2020GIF: Facebook/iStock

If you watch this YouTube video of a “lifelong Democrat” who now supports President Donald Trump, you might get the impression that “AJ from Texas” wants to secure the...

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techclickbate Jul 03, 2019

You should try to find a profession that allows you to seethe less. You’ll be happier, healthier, and have a much better outlook on life, Matt.

Douglas Cegelis Jul 03, 2019

You should be less stupid, but some things are not in our control

Matt Novak Jul 03, 2019

I’d still be pissed off about what’s happening to the U.S. right now, e ven if I didn’t write online for a living . I realize that this is all a game to people who think that if you turn off the TV it goes away.

This shit is and it’s happening in our name. Literally the least we can do is pay attention.

GodDamnTheseElectricSexPants Jul 03, 2019

The campaign tried to use real supporters but didn’t have the budget to remove all of the third r eich themed sleeve tattoos.

I wish Jon Stewart would come back Jul 03, 2019

The real AJ from Texas didn’t look so good on camera.

NameIwillRegret Jul 03, 2019

He was going to wear his rape joke t-shirt, but then he decided to keep it classy for church.

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Rhett Jones Aug 16, 2018. 5 comments

Google Releases Political Ad Database and Trump Is the Big Winner

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Google has finally opened up about political ad-spending on its platforms and published a living archive of who’s paying what for your eyeballs while you’re just trying to consume some content. As we head into the heart of the midterm elections, Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign is outspending everyone.

Google’s advertising library is similar to archives that Facebook and Twitter...

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PV Aug 16, 2018

45 lives to blow other people’s money. He’d stroke his nub with his tiny hands , but he needs a professional with an electron microscope to find it between the folds of greasy KFC fat and under the layers of cheeto-colored encrustations .

optimusprimerib Aug 16, 2018

Yet it's only 2018. He just loves wasting money.

blackscreen Aug 16, 2018

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Melanie Ehrenkranz Jun 22, 2018. 5 comments

Facebook's Flawed Push for Political Transparency Is Censoring Crucial Voices

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Fake news. Foreign election interference. Dark money propaganda. This and more served as a catalyst for Facebook’s push for more transparency around political advertising on its platform. But its efforts to be more open are flawed, and the consequences are already becoming apparent.

On Wednesday, Facebook rejected a boosted post from nonprofit investigative journalism outlet Reveal, flagging...

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Arcane Jun 21, 2018 Where do you draw the line between political content that’s meant to sway votes and nonpartisan information critical for public knowledge? Well, the article starts with this: President Donald Trump’s zero tolerance policy is creating a zombie army of children forcibly injected with medications that make them dizzy, listless, obese and even incapacitated, according to legal filings that show immigrant children in U.S. custody subdued with powerful psychiatric drugs. That doesn’t sound very nonpartisan. Maybe that’s why this wasn’t allowed to be boosted?

yepimrite Jun 21, 2018 I don’t know why there’s even controversy. “Fake news” and “propaganda” are just synonyms for opposing view point.

John Carter Jun 21, 2018 This should be the only post along with a statement from Melanie Ehrenkranz saying that she doesn’t see what you are talking about and totally believe that article is news and not an editorial filled with accusations and not facts. And she is in no way embarrassed by this as a journalist? Or is she a blogger on this post? I get confused.

faithful-dushness Jun 21, 2018 first we tell a platform to monitor and censor, then when they do it imperfectly because, humans, we complain about them monitoring and censoring too much

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Rhett Jones Jun 09, 2018. 8 comments

Google Pulls Political Ads Thanks to Washington Law Forcing It to Say Who's Buying Them

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It’s becoming clear that online companies can do some of the hard things they’ve fought against tooth and nail—they just have to be forced to do it, although they apparently won’t prepare ahead of time. Case in point: Google has paused the sale of political ads in Washington state while it gets itself in line with regulations that went into effect today. Better late than never?

Last night,...

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Monty Jun 07, 2018 “It’s becoming clear that online companies can do some of the hard things they’ve fought against tooth and nail ...” Actually, since Google has stopped selling these ads at the last minute, doesn’t this show that, currently, they cannot do the things they were fighting against?

CSX321 Jun 07, 2018 How hard is it to answer the question, “Who paid you for this political ad?”

KinjaKinjaKinjaOy! Jun 07, 2018 That depends. How deep is Google supposed to look into it? Should they give you the account number the money came from? The name the ad-buyer used (which could be a pseudonym, are they supposed to check for that)? If it’s a PAC, do they need to verify who founded/owns/runs the PAC? What about the sources of funding? Can they trust self-reported breakdowns, or must they do their own investigation to determine the true sources?

Fury of Stretch Jun 07, 2018 It’s becoming clear that online companies can do some of the hard things they’ve fought against tooth and nail—they just have to be forced to do it, although they apparently won’t prepare ahead of time. Think this is a perfect summary for when folks say industries should self-regulate. Its like saying repeal net neutrality cause internet providers will “do the right thing” if they wanted to do the right thing they wouldn’t be dumping huge amounts to make it go away.

plainnottoasted Jun 07, 2018 Bingo. A corporation’s only responsibility is to return value to it’s shareholders. The government of “we the people” has the mandate and the responsibility to regulate those corporations to protect ourselves from harm that may result from that pursuit.

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AJ Dellinger May 27, 2018. 8 comments

Facebook Wants a Social Security Number From Political Advertisers

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Facebook already has more data on most people than it knows what to do with but the company announced Thursday that it will need a few more vital pieces of personal information from anyone hoping to place political ads on its platform, including a government-issued ID and social security number.

In a blog post, Facebook said it has officially rolled out its promised efforts to make political...

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SarDeliac May 25, 2018 hand over the last four digits of their social security number to the social network before running any ads, in addition to a government-issued ID and a valid US mailing address. Business almost never use an SSN; they use EINs. SSNs are for individual taxpayers, for the most part. (Also, Social Security needs initial caps since it’s a proper noun.) In regards to them asking for this type of info from companies who place ads, it’s not nearly as creepy as it sounds. (Seriously doubting many non-business individuals are placing ad buys on facebook, and if they are, they’re doing it as an LLC or something, and those have separate EINs.) That particular info set is textbook CIP, and with FinCEN’s new identification rules for legal entities—which every PAC is—I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see them asking for even more info from the corporations that want to do business with them in future. tl;dr:

Nostradamus2938 May 25, 2018 Not true. They’re requiring Social Security Numbers of individuals. An EIN is not an accepted form of identification.

SarDeliac May 25, 2018 Ah, I misread. So they are digging for beneficial owners/controllers, FinCEN-style then. Excellent. I am even more okay with this now.

Cabalanoo May 25, 2018 So, if I’m Hungarian and want to do an ad for my favorite Hungarian politician, I have to move to the US and become a citizen to do so? Or need to give proof to the local Hungarian Facebook office? Or am I just not allowed to run a US politics ad if I’m Hungarian? Can I run an ad about a Romanian politician? Can a CIA officer run an ad promoting my local Hungarian quasi-dictator capitalist candidate? p.s. I have no idea how Facebook works

Ssatinsilvercl May 25, 2018 You’re asking the wrong questions: What if I’m American? Do I have to be subject to foreign-bought ads in my country’s elections? Should I be concerned that some of my fellow Americans respond to racist dog whistles? Can November come already so Democrats can take back Congress with the blue wave and Mueller can finally reveal the results of his investigation?

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Dell Cameron Oct 31, 2017. 7 comments

Twitter Reveals New Ad Rules After Enabling Election Propaganda

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In response to increased scrutiny over Russia-bought ads that targeted Americans during the 2016 election, Twitter has announced new measures to increase transparency around ads purchased on its service.

The company says it will now disclose the total cost of all ad campaigns and share who purchased them. Information will also be made available to users about ads that specifically targeted...

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Zyion Oct 24, 2017 I wonder how long before it is discovered that ads for Democrat candidates come from just as sleezy sources. You’d be surprised how much money and support Clinton got from sources outside the United States who support terrorism.

kevincurry Oct 24, 2017 By all means, please show us some evidence of foreign governments buying political advertisements with the express purpose of aiding Hilary Clinton’s campaign. Please, direct us to the mountain of evidence tying Hilary Clinton to these foreign donors. And a pile of evidence tying her advisers, campaign chair, campaign staff, etc... to quid pro quo agreements with foreign governments. And find me a list of fake news sites that advertised and published fake news to promote Hilary (better be at least as long as this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fake_news_websites). I’ll wait for you to show me how “just as bad” the dems are.

Garrett Wilber Oct 24, 2017 Can you supply me some references please?

TRT-X Oct 24, 2017 Meanwhile, the literal Nazi accounts remain active and (in some cases) verified.

dragonfli-labs Oct 24, 2017 They probably bought ads. Twitter will give you Verified status if you buy enough ads, tends to be in the five figure mark and a multi-year commitment, but they’ll give you Verified for it.

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Dell Cameron Sep 28, 2017. 12 comments

Senators Seeking to Police Facebook Political Ads Move Forward With Draft Bill

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In a letter last week, Sens. Mark Warner and Amy Klobuchar urged their colleagues to support a bill that would crack down on shadowy campaign ads running on social networks like Facebook. A draft of that bill may be circulated among lawmakers as early as Tuesday, Gizmodo has learned, but with at least one significant change.

The bill as originally proposed was intended to track...

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Gnurrfrtr Sep 26, 2017 They need to drop donations alright- drop them to zero for corporations and, say, $100 for registered voters? It’s a start...

Taziar Sep 27, 2017 One that could have negative unintended consequences. Instead of mostly rational but self-serving corporations, the biggest contributions would come from social groups. You would have idiots with millions of followers tweeting donation links, becoming primary contributors. Sure, the contributions are technically done by the individual, but let’s be honest, social media uses the term ‘follower’ for a reason.

Michael Walsh Sep 27, 2017 ....and thanks to the First Amendment it’s an end.

Taziar Sep 27, 2017 “Facebook revealed last week that at least $150,000 worth of political ads purchased had been purchased during the 2016 campaign by accounts with Russian ties” Yes, and? Hillary spent $565 million on her campaign. Trump spend $322 Million. But lets’ go ahead and include the $150k of Russian dollars onto Trump’s campaign. That brings it up to $322.15 million. Or to put another way, a completely insignificant difference. Or to put yet another way, Hillary spent $243 MILLION more than Trump and still lost. So if she couldn’t buy the election with $243 million, what is Russia going to do with .15 million? Not bloody much. I also find it odd how we get indignant about Russia ‘influencing’ our election. There probably hasn’t been a foreign election on the planet in the last 50 years the US didn’t try to influence.

Michael Walsh Sep 27, 2017 If the Russians wanted Americans divided they seem to have accomplished it, only after the election. Of course they had accomplices like Gawker to help,

bobetty Sep 27, 2017 Once you are able to do the true math on Trump’s campaign, feel free to share the results. Until that point in time, keep doing the math on how the Koch brothers were able to give millions. As a bonus fuck you, you are a cuck to the Kock brothers

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Kate Conger Sep 21, 2017. 14 comments

Congress Wants New Rules for Online Political Advertising After Russian Facebook Ads

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Democrats in the House and Senate are pushing the Federal Election Commission to develop new rules governing political advertising on social media after Facebook revealed that Russian trolls routinely purchased ads on its platform during the 2016 election cycle.

“Foreign nationals were shown to have routinely deployed sophisticated tactics in making political expenditures to evade detection,...

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butcherbakertoiletrymaker Sep 20, 2017 Congress Democrats Wants New Rules for Online Political Advertising After Russian Facebook Ads FIFY

Country Mac's Ocular Patdown Sep 20, 2017 Smart move. When Russians can be successful for $100K and the Democrats spent a $1 million on the same thing, it is troubling. Is it commentary on the American work ethic? Or a metaphor for outsourcing in general? /semi-serious about the point, the conclusions are jokes.

TheAngryMob Sep 20, 2017 It’s more that the DNC had to adhere to campaign, slander, and libel laws. Russian trolls? Not so much. Think of it as Taxi Companies vs Uber. Taxis have to adhere to rules and regulations (employment laws, the ADA, and so forth), whereas Uber circumvents those laws to bring a cheaper service to the market.

lollercoaster Sep 20, 2017 wtf I love Russia now - “Conservatives”

Yotsuba&Tochan Sep 20, 2017 Respect the flag!!!!! Hey Russian interference in elections? Good by me!

Sktroop Sep 20, 2017 “Evil Empire? We prefer to think of them as pesky or incorrigible.”

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