The former deputy PM continued to defend the indefensible as the tech giant went on an election PR blitz
On Wednesday, Facebook, possibly struggling to get out from under the realisation that it is probably now the only thing standing between Joe Biden and the US presidency, launched a PR blitz about new measures it was taking to clean up its act on political advertising and related matters. To a sceptical observer, it looked rather like a diversionary tactic to distract media attention from a more embarrassing Facebook-related story of the week, namely the conviction of Maria Ressa, the Philippines’s most prominent independent journalist, on trumped-up libel charges brought by the Facebook-exploiting Duterte regime, in whose side she has been a courageous thorn.
This cynical conjecture was boosted by the feeble content of the Facebook announcements. First of all, it is going to block ads from foreign state media during the US election in the run-up to the presidential election. Second, Facebook is going to mount a massive campaign to persuade people to go out and vote. And third, it’s going to give Facebook and Instagram users the option to turn off political adverts when they appear or to block them using app settings.
To hear a liberal talk like this about a company whose ignorance enabled ethnic cleansing in Myanmar takes the biscuit
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