"Political ads" refers to advertisements that are created to promote a political candidate or specific viewpoint during elections or other political campaigns. They aim to persuade voters, share information about candidates, or influence public opinion on important issues.
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The company is also making it easier for users to search
for political ads on the platform.
That includes its rampant data collection from users and its embrace
of political ads that target individuals and small demographic groups with precision.
And then target them
with political ads designed to work on their particular psychological makeup.
The bill would require online platforms to provide verification that foreign individuals and entities were not
purchasing political ads in order to influence voters.
The proposed bill
regulates political ads online the same way as if the ad appeared on television, in print, or on the radio.
Further, the social network hopes to more clearly
label political ads so people can identify the content as an ad, as well as see what entity paid for the ad.
That's 14 % of total
political ad spending — TV gets a nearly 45 % share — but represented a nearly 800 % jump from the $ 159 million spent in 2012.
What it suggests is that it is possible to
create political ads for social media networks tailored to exploit a user's bias or weakness.
The second measure would force disclosure of the funding sources
behind political ads and vote - getting efforts not coordinated with a candidate.
The results of my research were used to support overall arguments made in a book about
negative political ads.
I guess this can count as political advertising by foreign private interests, but is it illegal to accept money from foreign entities to
place political ads?
Contrary to the court's assumption,
political ads aim to manipulate our emotions, not educate us.
For even
greater political ads transparency, we have also built a tool that lets anyone see all of the ads a page is running.
The social network is also working on a tool that would let users see all the ads run by a specific account, and even search an archive of
old political ads.
It is now widely seen as the one of the most brutally effective British political advertising campaigns ever - and the gold standard by
which political ads are now judged.
But what they produce is still just a
standard political ad, with the usual imagery, the usual music and the usual «I'm great and my opponent sucks» messaging.
If anyone is going to
watch political ads, they're going to have to become as effective as higher - end product commercials.
The bill would put requirements on online
political ads similar to what ads on broadcast television face.
Among the requested recommendations are guidance for advertisement platforms to prevent foreign groups from
purchasing political ads and improve disclosure of ad funding.
Allow early voting up to 12 days before an election, permit same - day voter registration and require
online political ads to disclose funding sources.
The company also says it'll soon introduce a tool disclosing every ad and a searchable archive for
past political ads.
The social network is also working on a tool that would let users see all the ads run by a specific account, and even search an archive of
old political ads.
He stopped short of saying Facebook would commit to stop
running political ads in the U.S. paid for by foreign money.
While the company had ample cover last time thanks to Google and Twitter's twin implications in the controversy over Russian -
bought political ads targeting U.S. voters, this time Facebook stands alone.
Facebook's analysis found that a pro-Kremlin group in Russia purchased $ 100,000
in political ads during the election, according to a company blog post.
Two weeks ago, Facebook admitted that a «shadowy Russian company» spent $ 100,000 on
political ads targeting US Facebook users during the 2016 election campaign.
A demonstration of Facebook's searchable
political ad archive, which the social network plans to have available by June.
Facebook will be beefing up its review process for ads in hopes of preventing foreign organizations from buying
political ads during future elections.
Facebook sold approximately $ 100,000 worth of
political ads from fake accounts and pages out of Russia.
The latest news coming from Mark Zuckerberg's giant social empire is that no less than 10 million people in the US
saw political ads on Facebook paid for with Russian money.
Earlier this month Denham told a UK parliamentary committee that's also running an investigation into fake news that she hoped to publish her review of
digital political ad targeting this May.
Screenshot from Facebook's
searchable political ad archive, which the social network plans to have available by June.
And like Facebook, both Google and Twitter have promised to harden their platforms against disinformation entering the next U.S. election in 2018 while introducing
new political ad transparency measures.
The use of age targets emerged in a review of data originally compiled by ProPublica readers for a project
about political ad placement on Facebook.
«That's why today's announcement by Facebook is so important, and I would encourage all of the platform companies to follow suit as we work toward making the Honest Ads Act the law of the land, ensuring that
political ads sold online abide by the same disclosure rules as TV and radio ads,» Warner said in a statement Friday.
In addition, Facebook announced on Friday that it will require advertisers who want to run not
just political ads, but also or so called «issue ads» — which may not endorse specific candidates or parties but discuss political topics — to be verified.
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