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Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to Insurrection Posts
- SlipperySlope 6y agoOne way to look at the military gear ads next to Insurrection posts is that Facebook is bad. Duh. But another way is to observe that the algorithms for effective ad placement are those which result in maximum sales. Thus this is confirmation that readers of insurrection posts were more likely to buy military gear than other audiences. FBI could follow this up.
- JoeyBananas 6y agoThis outrage is over placing ads for one thing near another thing. Neither the ads nor the posts by themselves are inappropriate, but it's the composition of the two that people are upset about. This type of logic is almost as absurd as California's gun laws. Of course people tend to buy weapons out of fear, this is nothing new.
- bleah1000 6y agoWe all know this is BuzzFeed ragebait garbage. This had died down somewhat, but there is always some story about ads on "controversial" content. This is a new evolution of that, where it appears to be "controversial" ad on "controversial" content. I'm sure we'll see another round of ads on "controversial" content again soon.
- vinniejames 6y agoFacebook doesn't show ads. Facebook sells ads