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On TV, political ads are regulated – but online, anything goes

  • Written by Ari Lightman, Professor of Digital Media and Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University
There are different rules for ads on TV versus online.Goran Petric/Shutterstock.com

With the 2020 election just a year away, Facebook is under fire from presidential candidates, lawmakers, civil rights groups and even its own employees to provide more transparency on political ads and potentially stop running them altogether.

Meanwhile, Twitter has...

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