“I don’t think it’s right for a private company to censor politicians.” — Facebook is picking free speech in the political ads debate.
Mark Zuckerberg says banning the political ads will hurt the up and comers as the incumbents then get the advantage as they are covered by the mainstream media. But in reality, if you talk to anyone in the social media space, you can’t reach audiences organically anymore. You NEED to pay Facebook to distribute the content to newsfeeds.
Paul Stenhouse has been looking at how this works in practice.
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