Facebook he took a radical and extremely controversial decision that upset a lot of people already, and that's because the expectations regarding the social network were completely different. More precisely, those at Facebook have made the decision not to block the display of ads for the promotion of politicians within its social network, nor will it block the promotion of false information in ads bought by political parties, and not only that.
Facebook basically decides to allow politicians to promote lies within its social media platform, something that everyone criticized extremely much in the case of the US presidential elections of 2016, and not only. Just the other day, a vice president of the Facebook company stated that the social network had an extremely important role in the election of Donald Trump as president of the USA, and that it should not be used to prevent him from being re-elected in 2020.
Facebook Made the RADICAL Decision that UPSETTED the WHOLE World
Facebook says that if it had limited the types of political ads it would have displayed on the platform, it would have censored the politicians, which, she claims, could have brought lawsuits and investigations from the authorities. Those at Google already do this, and not too many people complained about it, but all because honest ads with true information are allowed, and those with false statements are rejected, but Facebook does not want to ban absolutely anything, promoting misinformation.
But Facebook, which may be the most powerful force in online ads in the 2020 campaign, says it won't change its core, controversial policies about political ads: It will continue to run them, it won't stop politicians from lying in their ads. buy on Facebook and will not restrict campaigns' ability to target groups of voters with ads."
Facebook made a decision that is certainly to the liking of Donald Trump, who in 2016 promoted a lot of disinformation to create disputes among Americans, and this helped him in the campaign for the presidential elections. Of course, in 2020 the team will want to follow a similar path, but apart from Facebook, they won't get much help from other parties, because Google and Amazon don't really allow ads that don't have real information.
Facebook maintains this decision all over the world, and as 2020 is the year with two types of separate elections in Romania, it will be extremely interesting to see what will happen in our country.
