Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will allow users to turn off political ads

[babylonsister]

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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will allow users to turn off political ads
Published Tue, Jun 16 202010:00 PM EDTUpdated Tue, Jun 16 202011:07 PM EDT

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads.

Zuckerberg did not say when this feature will roll out.

For months, Facebook has endured criticism for its policy that allows politicians to run political ads containing false information on its services.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads.

“For those of you who’ve already made up your minds and just want the election to be over, we hear you — so we’re also introducing the ability to turn off seeing political ads,” Zuckerberg wrote in an op-ed published on USA Today. “We’ll still remind you to vote.”

For months, Facebook has endured criticism for its policy that allows politicians to run political ads containing false information on its services. The policy has been criticized by activists and by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Rival Twitter, by contrast, banned political ads in October 2019.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/17/facebook-will-allow-users-to-turn-off-political-ads-mark-zuckerberg.html

[texasfiddler]

1. Probably because Biden's Facebook campaign was starting to get effective

[mucifer]

2. too little too late.

[Squinch]

3. But not to worry! This will do nothing to stop you if you are a loon ripe for radicalization!

Thank baby Jesus for Facebook! Otherwise we wouldn't know anything about Antifa or that evil pizza parlor in D.C. or the deep state at my doorstep that wants to take my guns and make me librul!

And still people use Facebook. Because, apparently, there is no way on earth to communicate with the grandkids unless you use the platform that is helping to destroy our Democracy.

[Nature Man]

5. See, you got it all wrong

Facebook isn't the problem, it's how you use all the settings. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Plus, telephones and emails don't exist anymore, so there is no other way to communicate with people. /sarcasm

[Squinch]

8. Yeah! Yeah! I don't buy anything! So they can't possibly profit from me!

[C_U_L8R]

4. Yeah but Russian bots are a-ok.

The nefarious stuff is not the paid campaign advertising.

[lagomorph777]

6. There's already a way to turn off Facebook political ads.

Turn off Facebook.

[dixiechiken1]

7. This ☝️☝️☝️

[Steelrolled]

9. If they allow blocking of political posts I'll take another look at it.

[hatrack]

10. And then they'll sell information on your political ad preferences as well . . .

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