Re NYTimes: Facebook Wins, Democracy Loses

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: <james.morris () cmu edu>
Date: Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [IP] NYTimes: Facebook Wins, Democracy Loses
To: David J. Farber (E-mail) <dave () farber net>
CC: ip <ip () listbox com>


Wait!

Facebook, unlike Twitter, does not allow puppets, i.e. accounts controlled
by other accounts. I recall Egyptian Spring activists complaing about this.

Does Facebook allow ads, i.e. something paid for, to masquerade as unpaid
posts? It shouldn't; Google doesn't. Finally, any ad should allow its
reader to learn about who paid for it.

None of these rules would prevent Russian robot trolls from posting evil
ideas, but it would make detecting them easier. A skeptical reader could
ask "Who posted this, and who are their friends?"


On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:

> Healthy democracies have transparency in political advertising. That
> doesn’t matter to Facebook.
>
> Read More...
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/opinion/facebook-wins-democracy-loses.html>
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