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It's purely a PR damage control move. Foreign agents would certainly know how to buy a PO box and/or incorporate an LLC.
by ad_hominem 9y ago
It's purely a PR damage control move. Foreign agents would certainly know how to buy a PO box and/or incorporate an LLC.
- threeseed 9y agoSure but don't you need to be a US Resident in order to get those ? Which means that if they were caught working on behalf of the Russians whilst on US soil then they would be looking at decades of jail time. Also at least there would be a physical, independent paper tail back to specific individuals. IMHO Facebook should just ban all political advertising but baring that this isn't actually a bad idea.
- ryanhuff 9y agoIdentity theft. The real person won't find out until the election is long over.
- threeseed 9y agoBut then the difficulty/cost shifts from basically zero to having to procure stolen identities as well as setting up PO Box/LLC. And since Facebook is likely to be restricting numbers/types of ads per account this could definitely make it prohibitive for a wide spread assault on Facebook ad system.
- stevenwoo 9y agoBased on the recent Mueller indictments for among other things - identity theft, that is not a huge impediment for motivated users.