Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban
I just watched The Great Hack, which I can&#x27;t say is fantastic as a whole, but does still raise some terrifying points of the power of targeted political ads and how they are being weaponized. I really don&#x27;t see any other choice but to ban political ads entirely as Twitter is doing.<p>For those that haven&#x27;t seen it, here&#x27;s some backstory on one piece about the Trinidad election:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendemocracy.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;dark-money-investigations&#x2F;they-were-planning-on-stealing-election-explosive-new-tapes-reveal-cambridg&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendemocracy.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;dark-money-investigations&#x2F;t...</a><p>But basically, a political campaign was started around NOT voting as a form of protest. And those were targeted to the opposing party etc..<p>It is one thing if political ads were just about informing the public about a candidate, but we are far past that. This is a question about the legitimacy of our democracy now.<p>Anybody have any bright ideas on how to apply pressure on Facebook to do the same as Twitter? This feels to me like one of the more important questions of our (immediate) time since it effects absolutely everything.