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“Congress needs to codify standards around political advertising,” he writes, saying that existing laws are decades out of date and don’t cover the types of pla

“Congress needs to codify standards around political advertising,” he writes, saying that existing laws are decades out of date and don’t cover the types of platforms that exist today. Here's an article of all the platforms political ad policies (from June 2018) for advertisers. https://marketingland.com/the-big-list-of-political-ad-policies-from-leading-social-search-platforms-241669 https://marketingland.com/the-big-list-of-political-ad-polic... Most ad policies have been updated to stop foreign paid political ads. And the FEC and states have laws on allowed content. But paid ads are one thing. Fake accounts posting lies and mis-information are another.

chiefalchemist 8y ago
> "But paid ads are one thing. Fake accounts posting lies and mis-information are another." IDK. I just sat through 4 - 6 weeks of political ads (here in central NJ) and it was difficult to tell fact from fiction. To say nothing of the fact most did not disclose even their declared party. As for the super PAC ads. Those were more twisted informion with the source being far from transparent - not even a URL. Point being. Same lies as always. Same misinfo as always. None of it done by Russians. Let's not be naive. The system is optimized for bad info from bad actors. The difference is, the actors are not our (so called) representatives.