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Bayard

(21,806 posts)
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 12:21 PM Oct 2019

George Takei on Facebook's cash-for-lies ad policy



GeorgeTakei

"I’m going to pay for a political ad on Facebook announcing that a tortured Mike Pence has finally come out. False ad? Well, you decide."


I would personally like to see what Zuckerberg would do if someone placed an ad saying he was a pedophile or some such. Think he'd take it down?

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George Takei on Facebook's cash-for-lies ad policy (Original Post) Bayard Oct 2019 OP
That's not the way it works - The Zuke won't be doing anything Backseat Driver Oct 2019 #1
He needs to create a phantom issue advocacy group to shield his donations TheRealNorth Oct 2019 #2
Let me ponder this.. Duppers Oct 2019 #3

Backseat Driver

(4,339 posts)
1. That's not the way it works - The Zuke won't be doing anything
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 12:38 PM
Oct 2019

except busy getting richer and not at all worried about drop-in-the-bucket fines. He's got it covered! Hah! Algorithms and screeners who easily hide their penchants for free(?) speech; oops, slipped through the human (purposeful) cracks in the platform politic.

TheRealNorth

(9,435 posts)
2. He needs to create a phantom issue advocacy group to shield his donations
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 12:46 PM
Oct 2019

Then he can have that group run the ads. That way, if Pence comes after him for defamation, he can go only go after assets in the Issue Advocacy Group that ran the ads.

Duppers

(28,094 posts)
3. Let me ponder this..
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 12:48 PM
Oct 2019

..uh, nope, not until someone from the OrangeOne's sturmabteilung* called him.

* I just learned this new word & had to use it.

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