[HN Gopher] Facebook Failed to Stop Ads Threatening Election Wor...
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       Facebook Failed to Stop Ads Threatening Election Workers
        
       Author : sizzle
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-12-05 19:48 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | sizzle wrote:
       | Non-paywall link: http://archive.today/FOANs
        
       | lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
       | I'm not sure the conclusion in the headline is necessarily what
       | happened here.
       | 
       | > Researchers deleted the approved ads before they were
       | published.
       | 
       | > TikTok and YouTube rejected all the ads and suspended the
       | accounts that attempted to submit them, the researchers said.
       | 
       | > [Meta] also said that ads continue to be reviewed after they go
       | live.
       | 
       | Makes me wonder what "go live" means in this context. If the
       | researchers never "published" the ad (ie, asked Meta to start
       | showing it), then how do we really know that Facebook "failed to
       | stop" these ads?
       | 
       | I've never advertised on any of these platforms so this may be
       | moot, but one might also consider different processes between the
       | platforms for when an ad is ready to be shown to consumers. Maybe
       | the researchers didn't complete the necessary steps ("publish")
       | to be told that their ad is in violation of certain terms.
       | 
       | That being said, it's worth noting that the ads were submitted
       | without being published and the submissions were never flagged
       | for human review. It's just hard to say "Facebook failed to stop
       | ads" when they weren't _necessarily_ given the opportunity to
       | "stop" them.
       | 
       | (If someone has more insight, feel free to correct me.)
        
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