The problem of FB's incoherence on political ads is that it won't become a problem for *FB* faster than it accretes eventually-immovable problems for the rest of us:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/technology/facebook-political-ads-lies.html …
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...so FB is clinging to rules-of-the-road that don't predict or protect against an actor that combines malign neglect with cortisol predation with world-beating scale. Simply being wrong wouldn't matter so much if it was smaller. But it's not, so it does.
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They also don't seem to be able to be patriotic enough to understand that melting down the home-turf democracy is more important than competitive dynamics. The plaintive "please regulate us!" cry is as pathetic as it is cynical. Yes, society should. But not in the way they want
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You know when someone finishes an oft-repeated half-sentence?; e.g. "information wants to be free", w/o the attendant "information also wants to be expensive"? That's FB's mission of "bringing world closer together". It's missing at least half: https://investor.fb.com/resources/default.aspx …
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