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May 30, 2020.
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Facebook Says It'll Do Fuck All About Trump's Post Calling for Military to Shoot Protesters
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Facebook will not remove an incendiary post from President Donald Trump essentially calling for authorities to enter Minneapolis and open fire on Americans protesting police brutality there, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday. Earlier in the day, Twitter flagged identical posts on both
the official White House account and the president’s own de facto pulpit for “glorifying violence.”21 Comments
Meanwhile, Elsewhere
May 30, 2020
Liberate the White House.
The Final Days of Gawker Have Come
May 30, 2020
That is so fucking hardcore I don’t have words.
That is the swift right foot of street justice.
Rarely Sober Insomniac
May 30, 2020
I’m thinking the cops are going to stop using those fucking canisters pretty soon, considering how much footage I’ve seen of people kicking/chucking/rolling them back at the fucking cops.
And the cops always seem to be surprised, every time, when their own toys come spooting back in their direction.
Jedin
May 30, 2020
Continues to be the truest thing ever said about Zuckerberg.
The Left Hand of the Son of Coul
May 31, 2020
I wish this movie won an oscar just to stick it to him.
Rodgers Collarbone
May 31, 2020
It did technically, Sorkin won Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Mar 05, 2020.
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Tulsi Gabbard's PR Stunt Thrown Out By Federal Judge
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A federal judge dismissed outright loooooong-shot Democratic presidential candidate and Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard’s censorship lawsuit
against Google this week, writing in a decision dated Tuesday that it had nothing resembling a plausible legal basis.Gabbard’s primary campaign has always been relegated to fringes of the Democratic Party; some of her policy positions seem more...
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Formerly known as "Misery In Missouri"
Mar 05, 2020
She’s just applying for a job as the token “democrat” on Fox News. She can fuck right off.
David E. Davis
Mar 05, 2020
So the clueless attention hog went looking for a payday because she thought Google is the government and wasted the court’s time with a frivolous lawsuit.
Here’s hoping she’s voted out at the earliest possible election.
TheTSelby
Mar 05, 2020
Yeah even I know it is Facebook that is run by the CIA and NSA not Google.
Feb 29, 2020.
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Is This a Joke?
In the wake of a carpet-bomb of Bloomberg-sponsored memes, The New York Times reported rumblings of nervous activity over at Facebook HQ this week. Several meme accounts, including previous FyreFest shills FuckJerry, had mobilized into an entity called “Meme 2020”; Bloomberg appeared on dozens of feeds with millions of followers, photoshopped in board shorts, flouting vague political ad...
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TopHatCane42
Feb 29, 2020
The first paragraph of this article is so incomprehensible that I gave up.
NonUniqueVisitor
Feb 29, 2020
In the wake of a carpet-bomb of Bloomberg-sponsored memes, The New York Times reported over at Facebook HQ this week. Several meme accounts, including previous FyreFest shills FuckJerry, had mobilized into an entity called “ ”; Bloomberg appeared on dozens of feeds with millions of followers, photoshopped in board shorts, flouting vague political ad policies; a new era of political sponcon was upon us.
I don’t know who keeps track of the se things, but a 68 word sentence should be in the running for some sort of GMG achievement.
NonUniqueVisitor
Feb 29, 2020
Nooooo! To late to delete, but thank you.
Tebow Kneeled First
Feb 29, 2020
I really didn’t understand any of this. But, also, I did. Fuck Facebook. Fuck Bloomberg. And Fuck, seriously fuck fuck, FUCK “influencers”.
...
Fuck.
Dense non aqueous phase liquid
Feb 29, 2020
Whether you understood it or not - it’s still better than me reading W orldstar as Wordstar and thinking that 1980s word processing is back, baby. W oohoo!
Douglas
Mar 01, 2020
Oh gods. I remember in college in ‘87 we were required to do all our term papers in Wordstar and save them to our various advisor’s directories. An early version of paperless classes. Great idea and it worked, but you had to fight for time in the computer lab. (Few people had personal computers at that place and time, and in any case you were required to use the College’s computers and network. )
I ended up writing my term papers by hand on paper, then going in to the computer lab at 2:00 in the morning to type them in, which wasn’t that big a deal since I’m a touch typist.
However I began to loathe Wordstar almost immediately. I was used to Applewriter and Word (the latter of which I liked better, but that was back before it became the bloated disaster it is today. ) so Wordstar was like composing with stone knives and bearskins.
Spotify: Your Political Ads Are No Good Here
Streaming giant Spotify will ban all political advertising in early 2020, Ad Age reported on Friday, saying in a statement to the site that it does “not yet have the necessary level of robustness in our process, systems and tools to responsibly validate and review this content.”
The suspension of paid political ads on Spotify’s streaming platform will apply to all ad-supported content,...
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Kalassynikoff
Dec 28, 2019
Wow what a responsible response from a large company. Take notes Zuckerburger.
Kirkaiya
Dec 28, 2019
Zuckerberg only cares about money. He’d sell the country, and his own child, to neo-Nazis for enough $$.
The Actual RootWyrm
Dec 28, 2019
The Russians offered more money and paid cash.
ssjgodfloridaman
Dec 28, 2019
I’m still pining for the day we remove the entire profit motive from our electoral process.
Fletch
Dec 29, 2019
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
ssjgodfloridaman
Dec 31, 2019
I’ve been looking for this quote for years and it’s eluded me.
Donald Trump to Freak Out About Political Ads on Google in 3, 2, 1
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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Manic Otti
Dec 03, 2019
This could easily be solved by banning all internet video ads. Just sayin’.
Apocalypse Cow
Dec 03, 2019
This could easily be solved by banning all internet video ads. Just sayin’.
So, let’s advance that thesis by saying this would even more be solved by banning political ads on broadcast and cable ...
I’m not saying that perhaps this would be my personal preference, but that the problem isn’t with the communication methods, but with the gatekeepers of said methods ...
... which of course gets us into the sticky realm of free speech and whatnot.
I’m not by any means claiming that it’s impossible, but trying to limit avenues of communication necessarily involves some human deciding what’s legitimate to communicate. Which has been the conundrum of a free press (which is absolutely essential!) from the outset ...
L ike rocket science, f ree speech — especially of the press — is hard.
USSThunderChild
Dec 03, 2019
which of course gets us into the sticky realm of free speech and whatnot.
No it doesn’t. Your free press, speech, and religion are protected . There is no guarantee or protection from private entities like cable companies or broadcast media, who are whatever they want to show or not show, within the established limits set by the FCC and upheld by the courts.
Meega Nalla Kweesta
Dec 03, 2019
Hi, sorry I couldn’t read your article as an autoplay ad took over my whole screen.
cheeto pendejo
Dec 03, 2019
bless you. i commend good, honest people like yourself doing god’s work by agreeing to be subjected to annoying intrusive advertisements so that we, the wicked cheating unwashed masses would not have to.
When Asked About Trump Dinner, Zuckerberg Is Suddenly a Big Fan of Privacy
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...11 Comments
Priest of Maiden
Dec 03, 2019
The biggest fuck you message you can send to Zuckerberg is to delete your Facebook account. It’s not a necessary part of your life. It’s easy. Go do it now.
Krag
Dec 03, 2019
This. Everyone acts like their world is going to fall apart and has an excuse. “Oh, I just use it to stay in touch with x” as if x doesn’t have texting, email, a mouth to have an actual conversation with...
yourmotherisaclassylady
Dec 03, 2019
I deleted mine about a year ago, and I’m actually a LOT happier on the daily because of it.
ManchuCandidate
Dec 03, 2019
Zuck isn’t the character Jesse Eisenberg played in the Social Network . He’s Jesse Eisenberg’s interpretation of Lex Luthor.
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...8 Comments
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.
Nov 22, 2019.
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Google Will Restrict Political Ads Worldwide Starting in 2020
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
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.
Twitter Details Its Political Ad Ban as Civil Rights Groups Ask, What About the Nazis?
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".
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!
Facebook Says UK Political Candidates Are Cool To Lie Too. Joy.
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.8 Comments
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.
Open Channel: Let's Talk About the Big Social Media News of the Month
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.
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.
Sheryl Sandberg: We Let Politicians Lie in Facebook Ads for the 'Discourse,' Not the Money
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
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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 ”.
Trump Campaign Uses Stock Video of 'Supporters' in Latest Facebook Ads
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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.
Google Releases Political Ad Database and Trump Is the Big Winner
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
Facebook's Flawed Push for Political Transparency Is Censoring Crucial Voices
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
Google Pulls Political Ads Thanks to Washington Law Forcing It to Say Who's Buying Them
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.
Facebook Wants a Social Security Number From Political Advertisers
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...8 Comments
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?
Twitter Reveals New Ad Rules After Enabling Election Propaganda
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.