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Was It a Facebook Election?

2 points by evolve2k 7y ago

smashah 7y ago
It's rich for this to be coming from the BBC. I'm no BBC basher but when it comes to peddling lies from the tories, the BBC were willing and ready. Was this the Facebook Election? No. It was the Deception Election.
evolve2k 7y ago
In Australia political ads are regulated and need to include the phrase “Autorised by FirstName LastName, City”. This applies to Television as well as all print ads. The reason for this requirement is to hold all political paid advertising accountable to an identified local citizen even if they represent a large political party. Facebook ads currently do not align with this criteria and I’ve read other articles where the Electoral Commisison May take weeks corresponding with Facebook to have a bad actors post taken down while in the mean time the bad actor is able to spin up many more pages under a different name with no visablity or accountability. I’m separating general take posts and contents here from paid advertising. For example in Australia the Palmer United party spent $40 million on Facebook ads and achieved roughly 3% of the vote nationally that on preferences went to our conservatives who needed a 2% swing and this alone helped them gain power. To give you an idea the Palmer party candidates didn’t even bother to put up street posters of themselves or attend public forums like other candidates locally. I see this as a open backdoor in winning democratic elections. How do we address this as democratic citizens where Facebook is prevalent in our countries? In Australia we still have a Electoral Commission that is fairly well regarded. I’m thinking out loud, a possible solution could be if the Electral Commisison required anyone wanting to undertake paid political advertising to register with them and then this authorisation/authentication was required to be linked up when creating online political ads on major platforms. Later when there’s a complaint the Electoral Commission could after investigation withdrawal authority and on all major social platforms their ads having losts permissions could come down all at once. This would need local regulation/legislation to inact but do you think if it was it would be effective? What solutions can you see?
- evolve2k 7y ago
  The only other idea I have is to open source a public whack-a-mole and encourage user submission by concerned milenialls who hunt bad ads and lodge complaints. But I’ve not thought this out more.

2 points by evolve2k 7y ago

It's rich for this to be coming from the BBC. I'm no BBC basher but when it comes to peddling lies from the tories, the BBC were willing and ready. Was this the Facebook Election? No. It was the Deception Election.

evolve2k 7y ago

In Australia political ads are regulated and need to include the phrase “Autorised by FirstName LastName, City”. This applies to Television as well as all print ads. The reason for this requirement is to hold all political paid advertising accountable to an identified local citizen even if they represent a large political party. Facebook ads currently do not align with this criteria and I’ve read other articles where the Electoral Commisison May take weeks corresponding with Facebook to have a bad actors post taken down while in the mean time the bad actor is able to spin up many more pages under a different name with no visablity or accountability. I’m separating general take posts and contents here from paid advertising. For example in Australia the Palmer United party spent $40 million on Facebook ads and achieved roughly 3% of the vote nationally that on preferences went to our conservatives who needed a 2% swing and this alone helped them gain power. To give you an idea the Palmer party candidates didn’t even bother to put up street posters of themselves or attend public forums like other candidates locally. I see this as a open backdoor in winning democratic elections. How do we address this as democratic citizens where Facebook is prevalent in our countries? In Australia we still have a Electoral Commission that is fairly well regarded. I’m thinking out loud, a possible solution could be if the Electral Commisison required anyone wanting to undertake paid political advertising to register with them and then this authorisation/authentication was required to be linked up when creating online political ads on major platforms. Later when there’s a complaint the Electoral Commission could after investigation withdrawal authority and on all major social platforms their ads having losts permissions could come down all at once. This would need local regulation/legislation to inact but do you think if it was it would be effective? What solutions can you see?

evolve2k 7y ago
The only other idea I have is to open source a public whack-a-mole and encourage user submission by concerned milenialls who hunt bad ads and lodge complaints. But I’ve not thought this out more.