Facebook’s new political-ad policy already showing cracks, loopholes

Facebook’s new political-ad policy already showing cracks, loopholes

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/facebooks-new-political-ad-policy-already-showing-cracks-loopholes/

If you create a system, someone will try to game it—that's true of everything from Candyland to the tax code. And so we should be terribly surprised that Facebook—which is desperately trying to create some kind of coherent system for political advertising and speech as the United States careens headlong into the 2020 election season—already has players pushing to exploit loopholes in its policy.

Facebook’s new political-ad policy already showing cracks, loopholes

Oct 28, 2019, 8:51pm UTC
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/facebooks-new-political-ad-policy-already-showing-cracks-loopholes/ > If you create a system, someone will try to game it—that's true of everything from Candyland to the tax code. And so we should be terribly surprised that Facebook—which is desperately trying to create some kind of coherent system for political advertising and speech as the United States careens headlong into the 2020 election season—already has players pushing to exploit loopholes in its policy.