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This crafty term "political or issue ads". Is that a legal / enforceable term, or is this something that Facebook gets to decide? Whatever it is, we're going
by nfoz 9y ago
This crafty term "political or issue ads". Is that a legal / enforceable term, or is this something that Facebook gets to decide?
Whatever it is, we're going to see that "ads which influence the public for political aims" are going to bleed juuuust on the other edge of that definition.
Also interesting that Facebook's response to this issue is to collect more data -- this time about "advertisers with specific political agendas", which seems like an interesting database to mine (although maybe not that hard to collect, idk).
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago> Is that a legal / enforceable term, or is this something that Facebook gets to decide? In this context, Facebook decides. Broadly, the FEC has jurisdiction over defining and regulating "electioneering communications" [1]. [1] https://transition.fec.gov/pages/brochures/spec_notice_brochure.pdf https://transition.fec.gov/pages/brochures/spec_notice_broch...
- gt_ 9y agoNevermind that Facebook is precisely an “advertiser with specific political agendas”