Facebook to let users turn off political adverts
It&#x27;s a good feature from an individual perspective. It&#x27;s not a good feature if you don&#x27;t like cultural bubbles forming. Democrats will block Republican ads, Republicans will block Democrat ads - will that lead to a better world when Republicans can&#x27;t reach Democrat voters or vice versa?<p>I find this focus (attack?) on political advertising on social media platforms by traditional media companies to be self-serving and hypocritical. The craziest political ads have been run on local TV and newspapers for decades [1] and everyone just accepted it as part of a normal political discourse ... but now there is a concentrated effort to prevent or &quot;fact check&quot; political ads on Facebook and Twitter. Why? I&#x27;m sure it has nothing to do with billions spent on political ads (revenue that will go to traditional media outlets if it can&#x27;t be spent on social media), nor anything to do with the pro-Democratic party bias in almost all traditional media.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LcjEe9guEIA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LcjEe9guEIA</a>