3 ms·

What does foreign mean? Does all this apply to European elections?

ghostcluster 9y ago
Time to censor The Economist for meddling with the US political process! Speaking of, does Facebook censor Al Jazeera? It is foreign State run media that often runs English language stories tinged with Anti-Western agitprop. Their drive to limit clickbait is at least noble, though we'll see what that means in practice. Some of the worst clickbait offenders are none other than the large US media institutions themselves, from NYTimes, to WaPo, to Vice and BuzzFeed.
- ssijak 9y ago
  Clickbaiting is new default in media. Where I come from I stop reading all news because clickbaiting is soooo overused and in EVERY article that it is painful to read something that seems as written by an adult who researched the topic.
jackvalentine 9y ago
That was my question too - it refers to sharing ads with congress so does that mean this is US-focused?
uoaei 9y ago
Foreign means parties outside the sovereign state in which they act.
- abraae 9y ago
  The article clearly calls out only the US. Since this announcement would have been carefully vetted by Facebook management and legal, I have to presume that means that they are only taking action over US elections.
  - ipsum2 9y ago
    Not true, Facebook is working on removing foreign interference for other countries like Germany: http://fortune.com/2017/09/27/facebook-fake-accounts-german-election/ http://fortune.com/2017/09/27/facebook-fake-accounts-german-...
paralelogram 9y ago
When I click on "Investing in operations" or "Updating our policies", I see US-formatted dates such as "August 28, 2017", so foreign probably means non-US.
- viraptor 9y ago
  It's a US company, publishing some English text. Why would you expect them to use a non-US date format?
abraae 9y ago
Both TFA and the embedded video reference "US election ads" which I find pretty shitty as a citizen of a country not the US (though thankfully our election is now behind us).

Time to censor The Economist for meddling with the US political process! Speaking of, does Facebook censor Al Jazeera? It is foreign State run media that often runs English language stories tinged with Anti-Western agitprop. Their drive to limit clickbait is at least noble, though we'll see what that means in practice. Some of the worst clickbait offenders are none other than the large US media institutions themselves, from NYTimes, to WaPo, to Vice and BuzzFeed.

ssijak 9y ago
Clickbaiting is new default in media. Where I come from I stop reading all news because clickbaiting is soooo overused and in EVERY article that it is painful to read something that seems as written by an adult who researched the topic.

jackvalentine 9y ago

That was my question too - it refers to sharing ads with congress so does that mean this is US-focused?

uoaei 9y ago

Foreign means parties outside the sovereign state in which they act.

abraae 9y ago
The article clearly calls out only the US. Since this announcement would have been carefully vetted by Facebook management and legal, I have to presume that means that they are only taking action over US elections.
- ipsum2 9y ago
  Not true, Facebook is working on removing foreign interference for other countries like Germany: http://fortune.com/2017/09/27/facebook-fake-accounts-german-election/ http://fortune.com/2017/09/27/facebook-fake-accounts-german-...

paralelogram 9y ago

When I click on "Investing in operations" or "Updating our policies", I see US-formatted dates such as "August 28, 2017", so foreign probably means non-US.

viraptor 9y ago
It's a US company, publishing some English text. Why would you expect them to use a non-US date format?

abraae 9y ago

Both TFA and the embedded video reference "US election ads" which I find pretty shitty as a citizen of a country not the US (though thankfully our election is now behind us).