[HN Gopher] Tom Hanks says that's not him selling dental insuran...
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       Tom Hanks says that's not him selling dental insurance in Instagram
       ads
        
       Author : c420
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2023-10-01 22:38 UTC (21 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.avclub.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.avclub.com)
        
       | midasuni wrote:
       | Why aren't advertising platforms like Facebook and google held
       | liable for the adverts they put out?
        
         | 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
         | Section 230?
        
           | richbell wrote:
           | Section 230 protects them from being held liable for content
           | submitted by users. I don't think it would apply to
           | advertisements that they are being paid to promote, but I'm
           | not a lawyer.
        
         | crooked-v wrote:
         | What would the liability even be in this case? We don't expect
         | anyone that shows ads to comprehensively screen those ads for
         | non-obvious lies (such as in this case, "I have the rights to
         | use the likeness of Tom Hanks for this ad").
        
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