Joe Duncan
Nov 5 · 2 min read

Chris Crawford 100% spot-on, my friend. I agree.

I’ll also add, that you’re not “progressive” or “left” if you’re okay with this degree of flagrant money in politcs with no excuse for where it really goes. I worked in politics for 9 years, on the ground, not online, and paying for airlines, hotels, etc., costed a lot of money. Facebook is a digital platform so no such overhead is necessary.

I’d assume you’re okay with Citizens United, also? If not, why are you okay with advertising on Facebook but not television and other places?

Further, we can safely say that Democrats and Progressives have their own media machine that’s also quite viral (Occupy Democrats, The Other 98%, etc.) and all the policy proposes is that you can’t advertise with money, it doesn’t say that you can’t POST. I have about 200k followers with my deactivated Facebook account, and none of them came through advertising via Facebook’s official channels, I built that following by posting quality content.

All advertising does, in a very real way, is prioritize less-quality content over the quality content people want to see. Your ad appears in their newsfeed in a place that someone else’s (possibly progressive or democratic) post that wasn’t paid for would appear.

Yeah, I don’t see the argument. I do agree that conservatives fall for fake news to an extreme degree, they also share things like kindapped children, pedophilias being convicted, etc., and other things that register high on the “fear” scale (conservatives tend to view the world as fixed and threatening, liberals view it as more welcoming and evolving), and this only further solidifies people into conservative viewpoints, but like Chris said, we shouldn’t be enacting policy proposals on partisan leanings or phony ideas like left-right. A policy should make sense and benefit the nation.

What you’re really saying is you don’t want to lose your job. I understand that. But, if you have to use Facebook’s paid advertising in order to obtain a decent reach, safe to say (with all due respect) that you might not be very good at social media marketing.

Joe Duncan

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