Facebook to Require Verified Identities for Future Political Ads

[DonViejo]

Source: The New York Times




By JACK NICASAPRIL 6, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook on Friday announced a series of moves meant to improve the transparency of political ads and pages on its social media service. The changes came just days before Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, is to testify before Congress.

Mr. Zuckerberg said in a post that the company has started requiring advertisers to verify their identity and location before they can run political ads on Facebook. That verification is meant to prevent foreign interference in elections, like the paid posts by so-called Russian trolls ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Mr. Zuckerberg added that he supported a proposed Senate bill, the Honest Ads Act, that would require such disclosures.

Facebook will also soon start verifying the identify and location of people who run large Facebook pages, Mr. Zuckerberg said. Officials say Russian agents used pages to pose as Americans on different sides of the political spectrum in an attempt to spread misinformation before the election.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/business/facebook-verification-ads.html

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Kind of late Sonny,

your word just got flushed down the Toilet.

[lapfog_1]

2. how about they simply contract (for millions) with snopes.co

on any political or flagged story that might be a conspiracy theory?

I have trusted snopes to check out any popular internet rumor.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Sheryl Sandberg is equally full of shit.

"We should not have taken their word that they deleted the mined data years ago when we learned of it", she said. "We never checked or audited them and were happy with the form they filled out about dating the data and believed they did delete it. Now we are auditing them so that is a big difference." She said this with a sing song, weather lady voice and a big smile on her insipid, smug face. I hope Facebook goes down and disappears permanently.

[turbinetree]

4. Hey Zuckerberg, I got an idea what don't you sign a "Disclaimer" or check the box & see how it feels

A disclaimer is generally any statement intended to specify or delimit the scope of rights and obligations that may be exercised and enforced by parties in a legally recognized relationship.



Your about six years to late, when IT comes to the right of "privacy" and its application..................



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[earthshine]

5. How about no political ads on Facebook?

Says the guy who never had, nor never will have an account there.

[FakeNoose]

8. How do you think they all got to be billionaires?

No way will they ever do that.

[procon]

6. They need to let users determine their own privacy settings.

Netflix and Amazon, and other shopping sites, all have recommendations that users can change. Google knows what I'm looking for, Youtube gives me choices in the same categories. Facebook needs to give more control to the users, and beef up their TOS so privacy in the top priority.

[jmowreader]

7. Nice job at closing the barn door

The horse died of old age three states away, but "late" is better than "never."

[BadgerKid]

9. Trolls will just hire others to post for them. N/t

[Hugin]

10. Yeah, Suckerberg really doesn't get hackers are going to hack.

That's what they do...

Hacking AKA Social Engineering.