Facebook will soon let users limit their exposure to political ads but made no changes to microtargeting or fact-checking of those ads.
of Facebook's political ads policy now lets users choose "to see fewer political and social issue ads" on their services and limit political and commercial advertisers' ability to target them with custom lists. Facebook will also give users the ability to include themselves in an advertisers' audience, even if the advertiser excludes them from that list.
Weintraub, a Democrat, said she was disappointed Facebook's tweaks didn't go further. After she wrote ancondemning the use of microtargeting for online platforms, Weintraub said employees at Facebook called her to discuss some of their proposals for changing the policy. After speaking with them, Weintraub said, "I was really expecting something a lot more substantive than this."
. He added that Trump's 2016 election was not due to "Russia or misinformation or Cambridge Analytica."I've ever seen from any advertiser. Period," Bosworth wrote. "This looks to me kind of like a piecemeal solution given the larger criticism Facebook is getting over its unwillingness to kind of tackle the problems of lies and misinformation on their platform," Sheingate said, calling their latest change "a Band-Aid or maybe even a larger distraction" from other issues.
applauded Facebook's steps toward transparency, but said he'd still like see Facebook provide a way for political advertisers to target the same audiences as their opponents. In a statement Thursday, Klobuchar, who is also running for president, made the same call while slamming Facebook for its new policies.
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