“Kim's research showed that in fact, these unregulated ads made up the majority of issue-based ads on Facebook during the course of her study. Facebook did not provide a comment before publication.”https://twitter.com/issielapowsky/status/985867497344765952 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted issie lapowsky
Either Facebook’s whole half-a-trillion business is a con—and neither ads nor anything else you see on the feed has any influence—or all this matters. If you work for Facebook, it’s one or the other.https://twitter.com/issielapowsky/status/985867910458626049?s=21 …
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issie lapowskyVerified account @issielapowskyThese "suspicious" advertisers predominantly targeted voters in swing states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. She also found that white voters received 87 percent of all immigration ads. https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/ …Show this thread16 replies 350 retweets 657 likesShow this thread
All these ads could’ve easily been made more transparent and public. Many of us called for that for years. Facebook *explicitly* requested an exemption, arguing its ads were similar to skywriting—where disclosure would be impractical. That doesn’t sound like being blindsided.
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