Could this not be considered identity theft?
Vice didn't actually run the ads. They received approval from FB to do so.
We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them
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#12Could this not be considered identity theft?
§ 11.432 Impersonating a public servant. A person commits a misdemeanor if he or she falsely pretends to hold a position in the public service with purpose to induce another to submit to such pretended official authority or otherwise to act in reliance upon that pretense to his or her prejudice.
That wouldn’t hold up in this case, because of that very important word “purpose”. They weren’t trying to get anything due to authority. In fact they were trying to make sure that Facebook was only approving ads by the actual authority.
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#13Facebook would not be where it is today if their programmatic advertising tools were not friction-less, it's going to be interesting to watch them balance ease of use for customers while securing their system vs. bad actors.
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#14I'm sure they will tell everyone that they have to do better, and that in the future things will be different.
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#15By telling Facebook to gatekeep what gets advertised better, there is a tacit admission that adverting is manipulative in a way that can not be defended from by the viewer, but simultaneously fine to expose the public to as long as we control that the manipulation happens in the ways editors at the large news organs agree with.
Don’t think there’s any grand conspiracy theory behind this - certain types of advertising (alcohol, cigarettes, guns, political campaigns) are regulated. As long as one plays within the regulatory framework, they’re free to pitch the general public.
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#16I’ve noticed on AWS I can sign up for and get an AWSGov account from my plain old personal account. It fully works, I can run EC2 Servers, get a weird style government bill that I have to pay, etc. Also, can anyone really believe Facebooks first attempts on this would be any kind of successful? Just a year ago their fake news plan was to link to verification about articles to facts on WIKIPEDIA. Do they not know how…
Isn't the only thing required for govcloud to be US address + card?
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#17Fakebook will take the money anyway it comes - - until public outrage finally makes the politicians uncomfortable enough to pass some laws with TEETH that will bleed$$$ Fakebook for each infraction.
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#18It's definitely a case of hanlon's razor for Facebook but it does show how easy someone with the right resources can exploit social networking sites to manufacture consent for example.
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#19Jeez, come on.
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#20I’ve noticed on AWS I can sign up for and get an AWSGov account from my plain old personal account. It fully works, I can run EC2 Servers, get a weird style government bill that I have to pay, etc. Also, can anyone really believe Facebooks first attempts on this would be any kind of successful? Just a year ago their fake news plan was to link to verification about articles to facts on WIKIPEDIA. Do they not know how…
Does that mean your instances are sharing the same underlying infrastructure as real government customers?