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>"More broadly, we're in a new era of political advertising that we haven't fully grappled with yet." This. Further, digital media has become so effective and
by shostack 8y ago
>"More broadly, we're in a new era of political advertising that we haven't fully grappled with yet."
This. Further, digital media has become so effective and audience data so refined that it can be readily and cheaply weaponized by hostile actors to conduct a form of "soft" warfare on the battleground of peoples' news and social feeds that skirts existing broadcast-centric political advertising laws. This is why they are in drastic need of an update via something like the Honest Ads Act [1].
[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1989/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/198...