Facebook Tried To Regulate Political Ads. It's Actually Regulating The News.

When Russian memes overtook actual political ads during the 2016 election season, Facebook knew it had a problem. But its solution isn't making things any better. At the end of May, Facebook unveiled its automated system that flags political ads and requires their makers to authenticate their identities. The system also labels who created an ad and stores that information in a searchable database. But ProPublica has been monitoring Facebook political ads since September, and what it's found hasn't exactly been uplifting.

 

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