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Facebook Failed to Stop Ads Threatening Election Workers
- sizzle 4y agoNon-paywall link: http://archive.today/FOANs http://archive.today/FOANs
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y agoI'm not sure the conclusion in the headline is necessarily what happened here. > Researchers deleted the approved ads before they were published. > TikTok and YouTube rejected all the ads and suspended the accounts that attempted to submit them, the researchers said. > [Meta] also said that ads continue to be reviewed after they go live. Makes me wonder what "go live" means in this context. If the researchers never "published" the ad (ie, asked Meta to start showing it), then how do we really know that Facebook "failed to stop" these ads? I've never advertised on any of these platforms so this may be moot, but one might also consider different processes between the platforms for when an ad is ready to be shown to consumers. Maybe the researchers didn't complete the necessary steps ("publish") to be told that their ad is in violation of certain terms. That being said, it's worth noting that the ads were submitted without being published and the submissions were never flagged for human review. It's just hard to say "Facebook failed to stop ads" when they weren't necessarily given the opportunity to "stop" them. (If someone has more insight, feel free to correct me.)