Spend a few hours on Facebook or Reddit and it’s glaring how tremendously unconcerned everyone is with the facts. Whatever your political viewpoints may be. A

Spend a few hours on Facebook or Reddit and it’s glaring how tremendously unconcerned everyone is with the facts. Whatever your political viewpoints may be. A politician trying to suppress the reach of political ads run by their opponent is very concerning to me. In the political arena most especially. The platforms should absolutely not be in the business of filtering and approving political messages directly from political candidates. It’s absolutely up to the voters to decide for themselves. It’s a different matter entirely if the platform is being abused by bots, fake accounts, trolls, etc. versus a political message approved by the campaign. > A Facebook spokesperson said that the company believes political speech should be protected. “If Senator Warren wants to say things she knows to be untrue, we believe Facebook should not be in the position of censoring that speech,” the spokesperson said. I agree 100%. And her opponents can call her out. And the voters will decide. It’s absolutely not for Facebook to censor a political campaigns speaking for themselves. Platforms should follow the laws on political campaign messages as they exist on the books. Mainly, as I understand them, this involves properly labeling the ad and who paid for it.