Editorial: Facebook hands its microphone to lying politicians, Twitter takes it away
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Oct 31, 2019
2 minutes
Facebook has become a prime outlet for presidential campaign messaging, with President Trump and his Democratic rivals collectively spending more than $1 million every week on targeted ads, according to published reports. So it was disturbing, to say the least, when Facebook altered its rules recently to exempt politicians and political parties from its ban on false advertising.
Not to put too fine a point on
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