Should these ads fail in fact checks? Does Meta do fact check, similar with Mr Trump campaigns, on its ads?
Should Mr Biden also be fact checking all of his propaganda ads, too?
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#22Political propaganda has no place on these advertising platforms. Deeper pockets shouldn't mean a louder voice on these matters.
I agree, but sadly deeper pockets have always meant louder voice.
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#23Should these ads fail in fact checks? Does Meta do fact check, similar with Mr Trump campaigns, on its ads?
Unfortunately, a big chunk of propaganda (to use the word very broadly - not just wartime propaganda) relies on information that is either true, subjective, or non-verifiable, and the dishonesty comes in the form of the context in which it is presented, cherry-picking, lies of omission, implications, assumptions, and optimizing for emotion rather than plain information delivery.
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#25I don’t know why China is so keen on helping Russia. Is this some kind of godfather deal and they want some massive ROI from Russia once things settle down a bit? Or is this some long-term strategy “against the West”?
What's not to understand? Russia is doing the pre-production research of how China will need to protect their economy when they put their military in Taiwan.
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#27I don’t know why China is so keen on helping Russia. Is this some kind of godfather deal and they want some massive ROI from Russia once things settle down a bit? Or is this some long-term strategy “against the West”?
> Or is this some long-term strategy “against the West”?
This. Both Xi and Putin chafe against the liberal order and see it as something in decline that stands in the way of their own goals.
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#28Eh. Aren't we the part of the world that supports free speech? Let them say what they want.
Free Speech for individuals does not mean that we have an interest in allowing foreign and potentially hostile actors to run propaganda campaigns using the ad targeting machine we have built using social media.
They can say what they want and every citizen can do so as well, but we should not allow asymmetric amplification.
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#30I don’t know why China is so keen on helping Russia. Is this some kind of godfather deal and they want some massive ROI from Russia once things settle down a bit? Or is this some long-term strategy “against the West”?
All of those things but also, supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine is internally consistent with their views on Taiwan. They cannot denounce Russian aggression on Ukraine but still openly claim Taiwan.