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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShadowy Facebook Ads That Pushed Trump Are Back for Roy Moore
Three months after Mark Zuckerberg pledged to stop external forces from disproportionately affecting U.S. elections, targeted ads are bombarding voters in a pivotal Senate race.
BEN COLLINS
ANDREW DESIDERIO
12.11.17 5:00 AM ET
BIRMINGHAM, AlabamaYvonne Trosclair doesnt know whos behind America First Actionwhich keeps running pro-Roy Moore ads here on television and on Facebook ahead of the U.S. Senate election on Tuesdaybut she knows theyre not from Alabama.
The ad campaign is ridiculous by itself, but theres nothing that makes my skin crawl more than hearing Alabamans instead of Alabamians, Trosclair told The Daily Beast. Its the first thing they say.
Trosclair took to America First Actions nascent Facebook page to vent her frustrations, just as several others have done over the past week after they were bombarded with targeted content from the pro-Donald Trump PACs $1 million ad buy. At press time, the group had a 1.7-star rating on Facebook out of 5.
What Trosclair didnt find was much identifying information from America First Action, including where the PAC is based. That sort of pivotal disclosure is one of the several promises Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg made in his highly publicized address three months ago aimed at fixing veiled political advertising on the platform, which was said to have help Trump win.
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Raster
(20,998 posts)...that for all practical purposes ARE MEDIA COMPANIES. Long gone are the days when farcebook and twatter could bill themselves as just the "digital watercooler."
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)They need to own up to their own disruption of media and politics.
Like it or not, Mark Fucking Zuckerberg, you OWN this shit.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...and in the IRONY file...
The Winklevoss twins that sued Fuckerberg, alleging that he stole their idea for farcebook, took some of their $65 million settlement and invested in Bitcoin, and are now confirmed as the first bitcoin billionaires.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/12/05/twin-brothers-are-the-first-confirmed-bitcoin-billionaires
alarimer
(16,245 posts)And they will lose their shirts.
I have family who insist on investing in bitcoin and I'm, "Good luck. I'm not bailing you out when it goes bust."