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Eli Sanders

@elijsanders
18 posts
2022-10-27
NEWS: Seattle Judge Douglass North has just ordered Meta to pay $24,660,000 to the State of Washington for 822 violations of the state's unusually strong law mandating transparency in online political ads. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-27 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington judge fines Meta ~$24.7M, the maximum possible amount, after finding the company intentionally violated campaign finance disclosure laws 822 times

Meta, Facebook's parent company, was fined nearly $25 million Wednesday for intentionally and repeatedly violating Washington's campaign finance laws.

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In a statement, @AGOWA Bob Ferguson, who filed suit against Meta over its insufficient political ad disclosures back in 2020, when Meta was still Facebook, said: “I have one word for Facebook's conduct in this case — arrogance.”
2022-10-27 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington judge fines Meta ~$24.7M, the maximum possible amount, after finding the company intentionally violated campaign finance disclosure laws 822 times

Meta, Facebook's parent company, was fined nearly $25 million Wednesday for intentionally and repeatedly violating Washington's campaign finance laws.

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In addition, “Meta is permanently enjoined from conditioning, limiting, or otherwise restricting its compliance” with the political ad disclosure law, Judge North's order says. (Meta had tried to avoid disclosing ad targeting info and limited disclosure to Washington residents.)
2022-10-27 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington judge fines Meta ~$24.7M, the maximum possible amount, after finding the company intentionally violated campaign finance disclosure laws 822 times

Meta, Facebook's parent company, was fined nearly $25 million Wednesday for intentionally and repeatedly violating Washington's campaign finance laws.

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2022-09-03
“I don't find that Meta's argument on CDA 230 is persuasive,” Judge North said from the bench. CDA 230, the judge said, “is directed at something different”—for ex., shielding platforms from civil defamation lawsuits. “This is a different matter that has to do with disclosure.”
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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The judge also rejected Facebook's argument that it's too burdensome for the company to collect, sort, and disclose all the data needed to comply with Washington State's political ad transparency rules.
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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In sum, Judge North did not buy any of Facebook's major arguments. “Everything,” the judge said, “starts out with, 'We can't comply with this.'” But, Judge North continued, “There is no attempt to analyze whether they really could comply with it.”
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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Another thing Judge North appeared to focus on: This case, now more than two years old, has established that Facebook *did have in its possession* all the data about political ad money trails and targeting that Washington State law required the company to disclose.
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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“In essence, the only reason why Meta refuses to comply with the law is, to put it colloquially, they don't want the public to see how the sausage is made,” Judge North said. “Because...”
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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“Because it's a very lucrative business to Meta,” Judge North continued. “And if they've got to reveal that information there may be less of it and they make less money.”
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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(Later in the hearing, Facebook's attorney specifically disputed Judge North's “press a button” contention.)
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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“They,” meaning Facebook employees, “necessarily collect [that data] in order to be able to run the ads they are running,” Judge North said. “All they have to do in order to be able to display it is essentially press a button.”
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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One thing Judge North appeared particularly focused on: the age of Washington's disclosure law, which was first enacted by voter initiative in 1972. When an attorney for FB/Meta claimed WA's rules are a national outlier without “a long track-record,” Judge North interrupted him.
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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In addition to arguing that Washington State's political ad disclosure law violates the First Amendment, Facebook (now Meta) had argued that Washington's rules violate federal law (specifically CDA 230). Judge North found Facebook's argument to be “a misapplication of the law.”
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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“But the law does have a long history outside of digital platforms,” Judge North told the lawyer for Facebook. “I mean, we've been doing this for 50 years with radio, TV, etc.” This was a point made repeatedly by lawyers for Washington State: Other mediums comply. Why can't FB?
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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Having ruled that Washington State's unique political ad transparency law is constitutional, and having found that Facebook intentionally and repeatedly violated that law, Judge North will next consider (at a future date) fines and a potential injunction requiring FB to comply.
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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Facebook's attorney repeatedly pointed out that the company decided to ban political ads in Washington State to avoid the state's disclosure law. But Judge North called FB's measure “a ban you could drive a Mack truck through, since they're not trying to enforce it.”
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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In contrast, Judge North said that “public disclosure laws serve one of the fundamental interests that underly the First Amendment, and that is transparency.” He called transparency “essential part of democracy.”
2022-09-03 View on X
The Seattle Times

A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined

Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

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2020-11-25
Huh. Maybe someone's hunch (or private tip) that something like this must exist was behind all those demands for secret Facebook “lists” at last week's Senate hearing? https://wildwest.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-25 View on X
New York Times

Avaaz study: a small group of mostly right-wing Facebook accounts are responsible for the spread of a disproportionate amount of false posts about voter fraud

Researchers have found that a small group of social media accounts are responsible for the spread of a disproportionate amount of the false posts about voter fraud. Tweets: @digiph...

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