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Facebook finally hands over leave campaign Brexit ads

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Re: Facebook finally hands over leave campaign Brexit ads

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Starting reading an article on some info handed over, ended up reading a politicized article. Can someone link me the source this article is using for the new news? I'm having a hard time finding it in the inline links of the text.

EDIT: Via [0], I found the docs at [1]. Tech Crunch is a shameful, op-ed joke of a site.

0 - https://twitter.com/DamianCollins/status/1022437025667014656 1 - https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/cultu...

Re: Facebook finally hands over leave campaign Brexit ads

#9

I'm trying to understand the article's premise. Is all political advertising immoral? Is it something about the way the ads were distributed that make them immoral? Is it just immoral because the politics itself was "wrong"?

The UK has a regulator and rules about commercial advertising, but last I checked neither apply to political advertising. In normal elections there's often a row about some advert or other (eg the Tony Blair demon eyes poster) but nothing much comes of it.

In this case there is a widespread view that the referendum was decided by misinformed voters and activists are trying to intervene on that basis to halt Brexit.

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