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I don't understand. What is expected from Facebook concerning political ads? Should Facebook do the work of fact checking on behalf of viewers, instead of users fact checking on their own? Why is it that actual fact checking is being outsourced to social media companies (due to fear of foreign influence)? Should we also outsource voting too then?


Well, if FB is not interested in doing any actual verification, they should not have introduced a "Paid for by" feature.

These tests made it clear that the whole thing was just paying lip service to appease the public without any real intent to do the actual work.


Apparently Facebook, a company, is expected to prevent election meddling from Russia, a state actor.

Where is the NSA in all of this?




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