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Ya don't say?

Imagine finding out that companies that make money off of being paid to run ads, allowed someone to pay for something that wasn't true and ran it...

It's ALWAYS about the MONEY, Lebowski!

LOL

Then 2016 wasn't actually an accident, and the media outlets have learned absolutely zip, zero, nada from it.

LOL

In 1996, we learned that "if it's on the internet, don't believe it until you verify it". It's pretty amazing how people fall for so much stupidity on the internet in 2022.

Aren’t they supposed to NOT editorialise their content?

Censor these ads, get sued by the ad buyer. Don’t censor these ads, get sued by the truth police. How do we reconcile what is true? There is no truth police/authority.

Nope. I heard a redditor fact-checked it and it wasn't true.

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they have been doing that the whole time while pushing sales of chinese garbage and political crap with covid lies

🤯 You wouldn’t say

Granny, 2000:

anyone can say anything online. Don't believe a lick of it

Granny, 2020:

THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN! REPOST THIS MEME! FOR EVERY REPOST IS ONE DOLLAR TRUMP WILL DONATE TOWARD JAILING FAUCI!!"

Granting any authority the power to decree what is truth is the road to tyranny.

And my account was temp banned for a week for telling Republicans that voting day was Nov 9th

Next thing we’re going to find out is that switching to Geico might not always save you more on car insurance.

So what DID you win for being the 1,000,000th visitor?!

You really think someone would do that?

Just go on the internet and tell lies?

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ffs when did we all decide that we want social media companies to be the top judge of what is true and false?

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Meta looks like they're doing way better this year... only 20% of ads got through compared to 100% last cycle. The title is kinda clickbait.

Question everything. Fact check EVERYTHING

The ad doesn’t tell you to vote for the person HuffPost endorses therefore it is misinformation

What!?

Not the hecking votearinos!

I too, have been on Facebook and tiktok. Lol

So just like Fox, CNN, Facebook, CNBC, OAN, AP, BBC, etc. no shit

I actually thought their moderation had got better, but then I started getting dodgy adds - autogenerated faux daily mirror articles etc all leading to crypto or matched betting or leveraged stock trading scams. I reported a number with details of why they were misleading … none were taken down as they didn’t violate policy. Moderation still an absolute joke.

Imagine they published articles by the NY Times, the Washington Post, HuffPost, The Guardian, CNN and MSNBC ... how could social media ever tolerate such a gigantic load of misinformation? They might think that there was a "Russian collusion".

Or imagine they allowed Biden, Pelosi or Kamala to speak in videos published on social media. People who heard them might not realize immediately that every word they said was a lie. It should be obvious to anyone with an IQ above 95, but there are some really dumb people in this world...

"if it's on CNN, MSNBC, the NY Times, the Washington Post etc., don't believe it until you verify it" seems like even better advice.

How is that "better"? Less freedom of speech is NEVER better!

And insist that EVERYTHING can get published! Only fascists and liars try to censor others.

You have to realize the tough situation these companies are in. They allow misleading ads through? They're blamed for manipulating elections and profiting off of it to push one side's agenda. They censor misleading ads? They get blamed for censoring free speech to push another side's agenda.

There is literally no right decision a social media company can make here that doesn't involve getting completely shat on by ~half the population.

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