> one could imagine a hack of defining political ads as "anything that would need to be reported to the FEC as an expenditure."
That misses a whole bunch of political advertising. Most of it, I'd wager.
That misses a whole bunch of political advertising. Most of it, I'd wager.
Starting somewhere bad without a plan is actively bad.
Here's the thing, people. FB and Twitter are pretty much garbage. That's fine, and we all mostly agree about that.
Here's the worst part of social media in general: it's uniting the absolute shittiest of the Republicans with the absolute shittiest of the Democrats and encouraging them both to get together and form a government agency that defines "truth" and then forces private entities to enforce that truth.
There is literally nothing Twitter or Facebook or any other social media website could do that would be this actually bad.
That covers most political spending on the national level. Political spending for state offices (which dont have to report to the FEC) is a whole other story.