FB has said that it will lose money on political ads this cycle, which means that enforcing stricter rules and hiring additional reviewers is going to cost *more than $256 million*, somehow.https://twitter.com/David_Ingram/status/1054787689243766784 …
That assumes the reporting penalty and its resulting economic cost to the advertiser in the auction mirrors the compliance cost to FB, no?
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I guess your point is that they would make it so. Interesting. When I PM'ed the ads quality team, the thought of paying for the team by engineering the downvote penalty wasn't even floated. Good idea though. Wish I'd thought of it rather than treating the job as a chore.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Didn't mean to suggest it would. Facebook may also want to avoid regulation demanding they run ads by candidates for federal offices.
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The thought of bailing on the politics vertical must be tempting now. I suspect part of why they keep an unprofitable business going is the leverage it gives them over politicians and regulators. How much are you going to regulate the ads business that put you in power?
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