I can look past you being angry with us, but how dare you insult our wives. I demand a full and unequivocal retraction.
Ahh, this place will be so much quieter now. Because of course asahi will be taking his own advice and never complaining again.
Though I do agree that someone should be fact-checking political ads. Especially on Facebook, where people who are swayed by lies hang out.
You DO? That’s awesome that that can be done. Could you teach me how?
I started I Can Do Without Seeing Any Ad Pages At All, Thankyouverymuch six and a half years ago, but it isn’t getting much traction.
Probably because people already know how to block all ads, like you. I’d really prefer to do it your way. So, yeah, can you teach me?
Asahi isn’t changing anything. He’s just yelling on the internet about something he heard on the internet. He’s an echo.
Asahi is part of the problem.
“Deceit” in political ads is like holding or pass interference in football (happens on virtually every play/in every ad).
I get a boot out of the weekly (or more than weekly) roundup of Pinocchios/pants-on-fire media evaluations of politicians’ claims in the paper, or read them online.
Maybe Facebook could offer to run stuff like that at a markedly reduced rate or free of charge, and let semi-independent organizations be responsible for fact-checking.* I’m more comfortable with that than having faceless Facebook drones censor political ad content.
*there would still be screaming about that from political groups, mostly right of center. But no system is going to be perfect.
How you doin’?
I half wonder if the guy’s probably high functioning autistic and in over his head; I mean, he did develop Facebook, but he’s also shown that he’s astoundingly clueless in a lot of ways for someone in charge of such a colossal business, and says and does very weird stuff (the same exact clothes all the time?)
Usually being the head of such a lucrative business is a lot like being a general in the military- you are as much politician as you are guy in charge/plotter of strategy. But Zuckerberg just seems like he flat out doesn’t get a lot of this stuff- like he doesn’t understand in some fundamental sense why someone would have a problem with the privacy issues, or that everyone can tell the difference between deceptive political ads, etc…
To me, he just seems so… off, that I have a hard time attributing it to any kind of malice or greed; it just seems like utter weirdness or some kind of condition.
If it was coming from Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, or even Bill Gates, I’d assume they were being colossal assholes. But Zuckerberg just seems too “special” to me to feel that way about what he says/does.
Fuck me, are you even pretending that this is somehow comparable?
On the one hand, you have the proposal that adults should be expected to check claims made on the internet.
On the other, we have…fuck it, I’ve no idea what point you’re even trying to make. That if we expect adults to check internet facts for themselves, that we should hold children to account for taking guns to school. Or something? Fuck knows.
I know a lot of people have said this to you of late, but you really need to consider some time away from the internet.
I don’t have a facebook. Wouldn’t even know where to buy one. Who reads books these days???
Cute page. What I found funniest on the page was this:
Pakistani Cute Girls is a related page?
As for blocking ads, I use uBlock Origin and Ghostery on Chrome. Can’t remember if it blocks the sponsored ads that look like regular posts, because I check FB maybe twice or thrice a week.
Also, while I don’t want to seem a Zuckerberg apologist, why are we blaming the medium rather than the people creating and posting the lies? Are we really expecting FB to accurately vet every political ad at every level and become the arbiter between truth/non-truth/maybe-truthful-if-you-look-at-it-from-this-angle?
But… Mark Zuckerberg is allowing lies in those pictures of your grandkids!
UBlock/Adblock work pretty well, but on top of that I also use FB Purity that gets rid of not just ads, but more or less anything I don’t want to see. I got rid of my newsfeed, related pages and a bunch of other things. It’s worth looking at.
On my phone, however, I still get all the sponsored ads. When they get to the point that I’m seeing them between nearly every post, I start reporting them…reporting every single one of them. If they want to serve up 30 ads every time I open facebook, they can sift through all my reports to.
Don’t get me wrong, I know it’s income for them, it’s just too many ads.
I don’t know who you were quoting in your post, but it wasn’t me.
Fake news!
I’m gonna demand a Congressional investigation. :mad:
Honestly, I don’t know who I was quoting either. When hit the quote button it pulled up two or three other quotes from replies I started, then abandoned (and the deselect link wasn’t there). I thought I got it right, guess not.
It would appear I was quoting D_Odds.
Try FB Purity fbpurity.com It lets you configure the page with as much or as little crap as you want. My pages are mostly blank except for the center content that I want. No games, no ads, no stupid pokes. It gets updated as FB changes shit too.
I’m always horrified when I log on from somewhere that doesn’t have all my filtering!
Any guesses as to the topic of today’s rage thread?
Zuckerberg was being questioned by AOC about Facebook’s policy concerning political ads and misinformation and he was all like: “Wut? I get paid.”
I’m feeling very Dangerfield-esque right now. 
Watch me make your life ever so much better–go to FB Purity and install it for your preferred browser. Not only can you make ALL the ads go away, you can tweak the holy fuck outta Faceplant and get rid of all the shit that annoys you. Fully customizable FB user interface, that’s what FB Purity gives you. You’re welcome!
ETA: Whoops, ninja’d! Which is awesome because usually NOBODY knows about FBP so the word is finally getting out. I’ve been using it since it was a Greasemonkey script and I wouldn’t touch FB with someone else’s ten foot pole without it.
Offensive Election Interference. Ten yard penalty, replay First Down.