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> the totally insubstantiable claim that facebook ads got trump elected https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/03/22/all-the-ways-trumps-campaign

> the totally insubstantiable claim that facebook ads got trump elected https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/03/22/all-the-ways-trumps-campaign-was-aided-by-facebook-ranked-by-importance/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/03/22/a... > the alternative is making facebook the gatekeeper of political truth This argument is so played out. If it cared enough, or was forced to by regulation, Facebook could deploy enough fact checkers to greatly reduce the problem.

s_y_n_t_a_x 7y ago
> forced to by regulation So now you want the government to tell Facebook what is truthful? Government approved media is propaganda. Do you not see how flawed this is!? The argument is not played out. I do NOT want Facebook telling me what is the truth. Period. If you want to limit their targeting tools for political ads, that's an okay route for me.
nyolfen 7y ago
would you trust fox news' fact checkers? do you think fox news viewers would trust yours? any fact checking apparatus would immediately become politically contested and unworkable in the best case scenario; in the worst case, we have a privatized ministry of truth that acts unilaterally. why would you trust facebook with anything approaching control of political discourse after the experience of the last election? are you naive to think that the 'fact checkers' will always be on your side? if you are, do you think your opponents will just sit there and let them control discourse?