Senator Warren tests Facebook's ad policies on lying... by lying

Senator Warren tests Facebook's ad policies on lying... by lying

By / Technology / Sunday, 13 October 2019 23:20

A sponsored post from Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign states: “Breaking news: Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook just endorsed Donald Trump for re-election.”

The statement is immediately clarified as being false, but the shock-factor employed by the ad has two aims – first to highlight Facebook’s recent policy decision to exempt political ads from fact-checking, and second to bring attention to the Trump campaign’s alleged use of false information in their own ads.

 

Read more at Techspot.

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