Comment on Meta will cease political ads in European Union by fall, blaming bloc’s new rules

Naich@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• tedd_deireadh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Exactly!

  “So, sorry <insert Super PAC here> we’d love to help you astroturf the EU elections, but those pesky laws are stopping us.”

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Exactly this. This messaging is for their customers, e.g. those that buy political ads, and their investors, those that want line go up regardless of how. They aren’t speaking to their users. Their users are part of the product they sell.

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  • tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bots and troll farms are not impacted, though. I don’t expect this will lead to better politics.

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