I don't really care if Facebook has an internal ban of some sort in place, or whether or not they're enforcing it effectively.

What I do care about is whether or not they're obeying the Washington State law that says Facebook, just like any other company, has to disclose who paid for a political ad, how much the advertiser spent, the issue or candidate supported by the ad, and the demographics of the audience targeted.

Let's not get distracted by this or that internal Facebook policy, or whether or not they've managed to enforce it.

Let's keep the focus on legal disclosure obligations for political advertising in our state.

The law doesn't make any exceptions for ads that were run accidentally, or in contradiction to this or that privately instituted corporate policy.

If a political ad runs in Washington state, then disclosure is required.

Who is paying for these ongoing Facebook ads? How much are they spending? What candidate or issue are they supporting? Who is being targeted by these ads?

Who still uses Facebook? I've thought the only way you could save Facebook is to make it a dirtier version of Grindr

@4 The Online Grandparents of America. You know, conservatives?

Moms for Seattle is just is a front group for a charter school supporters. And of course they are backing Heidi Wills, who never met a crooked dollar she didn't like. I'm for Fathi but I'll encourage everyone to vote for anyone but Heidi and the rest of her gang.

https://civicskunk.works/im-a-seattle-mom-moms-for-seattle-doesn-t-speak-for-me-87696b12b457

Nothing will change until you start jailing executives of the offending platforms.

@6: Lots of bleeding heart grannie libs my age and older on FB would emphatically disagree with that statement.

@8 refers to @5, not 6.

Jesus, Heidi got her ass kicked out of politics for corruption once already. Lesson learned? Guess not...

@9 and @8 but not @5 or @6

Forgive me, I was making a little joke there, one grounded in the statistical rather than the categorical. I can scold you simply for continuing to use Zuckerberg's Panopticon instead, if you didn't like it:

The older, wiser heads, people who ought to already know how to live without Social Media, should have turned their back on it by this late date, what with all we've learned. But no, it's the Zoomers who're leading the way, and rightly shunning Facebook.

Apparently Facebook also takes sides in races without ads. I follow all of the candidates in my district (5) and only see posts from one of them.

@13 Facebook needs a glass stomach. Unfortunately, the neighborhood and regional interest groups (2e, family cycling...) not completely overwhelmed by trolls and NIMBY activists (aka, not Nextdoor) pretty much only exist on Facebook. I mean, if I am wrong, and there are Discord or Slack (or whatever) groups with critical mass to actually have conversations about these topics, please let me know!

I don't use Facebook every day, sometimes not even every week, and I have pretty much unfollowed all my "friends" by now, but it's still the only good way to communicate with local strangers other than posting in the comments of a Stranger article. ;)

1) we buy ads on Facebook for socialist candidates in Seattle.
2) we get Bob Ferguson to sue Facebook every time we do the above, which will be often.
3) the state wins enough in lawsuit settlements to pay for a broad social safety net, including housing for all, a Sound Transit expansion from Blaine to the Columbia River Crossing, free education for every state resident and free healthcare. And we get it all from Zuck.
4) Seattle socialists claim victory and run candidates for Governor and the legislature.

Can you say Governor Sawant? Get used to it ;)

fb and google are Too Big to Jail
they (like "prez") make up their own Rules
and if you don't Like it
you can Leave it.

An America without Monopolies
is like a day without OJ.

@17 -- you must be a Russian.

"Passed heavily regressive tax on poor people, the soda tax"
Sodas ARE a very very VERY Heavy tax on "the Poors."

They contribute Enormously to the Obesity and
Diabetic Epidemics -- costing us BILLION$.

"Human suffering with no services for treatment."
You've obviously got the Wrong candidate, GA --

Kashama's all about ALLEVIATING suffering
not Imposing it.

You're obviously thinking of the Multi-Billionaires.