This is the online version of the Popular Information newsletter. Sign up to get accountability journalism in your inbox: Facebook has taken a lot of criticism, including from its employees, for its policy to allow politicians and political parties to lie in ads. It's a policy that puts Facebook in a position to directly profit from political misinformation. And it gives the green light to the Trump campaign to mislead the public.
My God! Every one of the false ads takes things Trump is actually doing & projects it onto Biden! Every one! (I know this isn’t new but for some reason it constantly astonishes me)
My daughter's 21 year old Native American friend has been put in FB time out twice for calling some loud mouth racist a "Cracker." He reported her. Judd maybe we should start a complaint campaign on these lying ads funded by the 1%.
Oh wait. Won't work. The FB weasels are earning millions. The old Sheepoles are getting bombarded.
Alternate Facts rule in a Presidency where he has told over 14,000 lies. It is a worrisome world that gets worse by the day.
I still work for Facebook (not on anything related to ads), and issues like this are why I went from being enthusiastic to personally avoiding using all products (FB and Instagram, but including even WhatsApp).
Still not ready to leave, and still trying to surface this at work, but sometimes I'm reminded of that line from Thank You For Smoking: "Everyone's got a mortgage to pay"
I'd like to see a one-page splash of names and faces of decision-making members of "Facebook", esp those currently flying under the radar, along with "The Committee to Defend the President", Katie Harbath front and center - who is she? What did she do as a Republican operative? Idk if this link will carry, but ck this out: https://www.aspenideas.org/speakers/katie-harbath
And maybe some cross-referencing between FB and the Committee.
I'm also wondering about the monetary payoff to FB for those 3500 FB ads currently being run by the Trump campaign? According to a quick google, FB itself takes the base ad and targets users for the client. Which means FB is aiding and abetting the Committee. At very low cost to the client. There's gotta be more to this than we're seeing.
Facebook has proven over and over again that the only time they show any integrity is when they are outed for their poor ethics. I’ve stopped using my Facebook account and will be shutting it down. Mark Zuckerberg has deceived and obfuscated me one too many times. The Republican Party works in his favor when it comes to taxes and hands off governing of corporations. I just don’t know how he can live with himself.
You are doing wonderful work. Who else can put the truth out there? Steyer? Bloomberg? They could and I hope they do--in sharp, clear ads that show the way FB blatantly lies. Biden does not deserve this--of course, no one does, but he's the biggest threat to Trump's re-election.
My God! Every one of the false ads takes things Trump is actually doing & projects it onto Biden! Every one! (I know this isn’t new but for some reason it constantly astonishes me)
My daughter's 21 year old Native American friend has been put in FB time out twice for calling some loud mouth racist a "Cracker." He reported her. Judd maybe we should start a complaint campaign on these lying ads funded by the 1%.
Oh wait. Won't work. The FB weasels are earning millions. The old Sheepoles are getting bombarded.
Alternate Facts rule in a Presidency where he has told over 14,000 lies. It is a worrisome world that gets worse by the day.
Thanks for the investigations.
I still work for Facebook (not on anything related to ads), and issues like this are why I went from being enthusiastic to personally avoiding using all products (FB and Instagram, but including even WhatsApp).
Still not ready to leave, and still trying to surface this at work, but sometimes I'm reminded of that line from Thank You For Smoking: "Everyone's got a mortgage to pay"
I'd like to see a one-page splash of names and faces of decision-making members of "Facebook", esp those currently flying under the radar, along with "The Committee to Defend the President", Katie Harbath front and center - who is she? What did she do as a Republican operative? Idk if this link will carry, but ck this out: https://www.aspenideas.org/speakers/katie-harbath
And maybe some cross-referencing between FB and the Committee.
I'm also wondering about the monetary payoff to FB for those 3500 FB ads currently being run by the Trump campaign? According to a quick google, FB itself takes the base ad and targets users for the client. Which means FB is aiding and abetting the Committee. At very low cost to the client. There's gotta be more to this than we're seeing.
Facebook has proven over and over again that the only time they show any integrity is when they are outed for their poor ethics. I’ve stopped using my Facebook account and will be shutting it down. Mark Zuckerberg has deceived and obfuscated me one too many times. The Republican Party works in his favor when it comes to taxes and hands off governing of corporations. I just don’t know how he can live with himself.
Shall we post this on Face Book? Yes, I believe I shall.
You are doing wonderful work. Who else can put the truth out there? Steyer? Bloomberg? They could and I hope they do--in sharp, clear ads that show the way FB blatantly lies. Biden does not deserve this--of course, no one does, but he's the biggest threat to Trump's re-election.