Facebook Accepted Thousands of Dollars to Promote Ad Its Fact Checkers Debunked

https://www.buzzfeed.com/cameronwilson/facebook-ad-debunked-australian-bushfires-misinformation

by hhs • 6 years ago

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ptah• 6 years ago

also PragerU is extremely dodgy, using "university" in its full name yet providing zero university services. it is a pure-play propaganda house

cartercole• 6 years ago

free speech doesn't mean you need to be telling the truth... do you really expect facebook to arbitrate all truth claims?

hfdh434535• 6 years ago

No but it would be great if they'd stop profiting off lies.

Facebook claims to care about climate change: https://sustainability.fb.com/

But if they are taking money to help people deny it, then the incentives don't line up. This can't be good, right?

runawaybottle• 6 years ago

I think we all need to stop pretending that the infrastructure for advertising hasn’t existed forever. Yes, the ad is now on a website, great. It used to be on TV and a magazine. What are all these ‘new’ concerns that haven’t existed forever? Oh, that the ad might be bullshit? Lol.

Facebook Accepted Thousands of Dollars to Promote Ad Its Fact Checkers Debunked

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