> Its up to Advertiser to make certain they are Not lying, The trolls placing the ads already know they're lying, so I'm not sure how that helps. Facebook also

> Its up to Advertiser to make certain they are Not lying, The trolls placing the ads already know they're lying, so I'm not sure how that helps. Facebook also knows they're lying. The question is whether Facebook's right to make money from lies weighs more than the right of its users to not be manipulated by propagandists. It's not a super easy question in the abstract because of the weight we give in the US to freedom of speech. But we also give a lot of weight to fair elections, and people have seen the real damage the current policy has caused. For that reason the discussion is more nuanced than it used to be.