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Facebook allowed hundreds of misleading super PAC ads, activist group finds
- node-bayarea 6y agobla bla bla..
- scohesc 6y agoI wonder how many advertisements are on Facebook that are false, regardless of if they're of a political nature. These massive silicon valley companies have proven time and time again that they are incapable (or _unwilling_ - which I'm leaning towards personally) of monitoring all their potential customers advertisements for factual authenticity. All because their main method of profit is selling advertisements. Of course they're willing to turn a blind eye to things that might be "factually inaccurate" because they're paying thousands of dollars to push the message. It's the same thing with Youtube - they say they monitor for content that is factually inaccurate but there's numerous cases where they've either been overzealous in what they remove, or they keep videos around because they're making lots of money on it through ad revenue. If these companies can't uphold the responsibility of monitoring content on their platform, why should they have this platform in the first place? They might be "too big to fail" but it's getting to the point where people have had enough and they're becoming "too big _not_ to fail"
- 37rurhrhrr7ff 6y agoThe only people fed up are the social media luddites and the cyber activists (atm mostly angry democrats who still can't believe they lost 2016). Most people are still content with these services and find then entertaining or useful. The only reason it looks different in the media is because if you don't take an extreme position to justify an extreme headline you don't get clicks.