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Comparing the removal of obviously fake news to censorship is a false equivalence. One does not lead to the other.

This isn’t all that hard, at least conceptually.

Clear, conspicuous presentation of the provenance of ad spend is what we need. Political ad spend should additionally be tied to positively identified individuals or to organizations with clear, conspicuous ties to positively identified individuals.

And we need this in legislative form. No letting the Facebooks of the world do it on their own out of some PR-spun notion of corporate responsibility.