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Political ads are not inherently bad though. Ads in general are not actually. Ads help political candidates to get the word out...i think that’s useful and I t
by rock_hard 8y ago
Political ads are not inherently bad though. Ads in general are not actually.
Ads help political candidates to get the word out...i think that’s useful and I think it’s awesome that Facebook didn’t go the route of less resistance (banning political ads) here and rather is trying to get this right!
Political ads a a tiny slice of FBs revenue...so I don’t believe they are profit motivated here.
$1B was spend on digital ads in the 2016 presidential runs and Facebook has a 19.6% market share so probably pulled in about $196M which is about 0.35% of their annual revenue...so I don’t think they are in it for the money at all
- dalbasal 8y ago>>Political ads are not inherently bad Are they inherently good? In any case, I didn't say they had to ban them, though I think in hindsight they should have considering (as you say) that they could afford to. Since they decided not to, then they should have treated political ads more responsibly. For example, only a candidate can run a political campaign. No anonymous advertisers.