Facebook allowing sponsored content for political campaigns with little oversight further muddies the waters, as #sponsored labels are often difficult to spot
“Allowing political candidates to use influencer marketing on Instagram requires a lot of trust in the way that influencer marketing works — and that system has always been completely broken.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Sen. Warren highlights the new political advertising loophole on Facebook, as reported by the Verge. Has anyone offered any explanation as to how “branded content” aka paying people to post things on Facebook's platforms, is different from advertising? https://twitter.com/...
In October 2019, Facebook employees raised concerns internally that ordinary users wouldn't be able to understand its policies on fact-checking political ads. FB's recent sponcon decisions risk muddying the waters even more. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Instagram has never taken accountability for the fact that influencers aren't properly disclosing ads, and most users can't accurately identify what's an ad or not (I can't!). So how the hell are they going to handle political ads? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...