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    Default Facebook Mulls Ban On Political Ads Ahead Of U.S. Elections: Bloomberg News

    Wonder who stands to gain by censoring political adds on FB? Truthfully, I don't need to wonder. It is what it is.

    July 10, 2020By Elizabeth Culliford
    (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its social network in the days leading up to the Nov. 3 elections in the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the company’s thinking.
    The potential ban is only being discussed and has not been finalized, the report added. (https://bloom.bg/2ZY7F6X)


    A Facebook spokesman said the company had no comment on the report.
    The social media company has been under fire for its policy of exempting politicians’ ads and speech from fact-checking. Last year, smaller rival Twitter Inc banned political ads, but Facebook has maintained that it does not want to stifle political speech.
    Republican President Donald Trump’s campaign and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaigns did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    Last month Biden’s campaign published an open letter to Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg calling for the company to fact-check politicians’ ads in the two weeks ahead of the election.
    In a Twitter post on Friday, Biden’s digital director Rob Flaherty pointed to the issue of misinformation in unpaid content on the site.
    “Requisite reminder that Facebook’s problems are 80% about unpaid content and so anything they do about paid content is an attempt to distract you,” he tweeted.
    Facebook has drawn heat from employees and lawmakers in recent weeks over its decisions not to act on inflammatory posts by the president.
    More than 900 advertisers have signed on to an ad boycott on Facebook, organized by civil rights groups to pressure the world’s largest social media network to take concrete steps to block hate speech and misinformation, in the wake of the death of George Floyd in police custody.
    (Reporting by Neha Malara and Elizabeth Culliford; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi, Dan Grebler and Daniel Wallis)
    https://www.oann.com/facebook-mulls-...loomberg-news/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    Wonder who stands to gain by censoring political adds on FB? Truthfully, I don't need to wonder. It is what it is.

    https://www.oann.com/facebook-mulls-...loomberg-news/
    I would love to see political ads banned from everything!
    If the freedom of speech is taken away
    then dumb and silent we may be led,
    like sheep to the slaughter.


    George Washington (1732-1799) First President of the USA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SassyLady View Post
    I would love to see political ads banned from everything!
    In a perfect and fair World. I hear ya. Fact is, the left would have a distinct advantage because every media outlet they have and call "news" are political campaigns for the left.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    In a perfect and fair World. I hear ya. Fact is, the left would have a distinct advantage because every media outlet they have and call "news" are political campaigns for the left.
    True.
    If the freedom of speech is taken away
    then dumb and silent we may be led,
    like sheep to the slaughter.


    George Washington (1732-1799) First President of the USA.

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