{"id":20,"date":"2018-04-10T15:08:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T22:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/?p=20"},"modified":"2018-04-10T22:10:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T05:10:38","slug":"comments-on-facebook-ad-disclosure-in-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/2018\/04\/10\/comments-on-facebook-ad-disclosure-in-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments on Facebook Ad Disclosure in NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the April 6, 2018, New York Times:<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s political-ad disclosures would in some ways do more than what is expected of television networks because the company would allow users to see all of the ads run by a group, said Travis Ridout, a Washington State University professor and co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Facebook\u2019s verification plans don\u2019t seem foolproof, Mr. Ridout said. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly a great step to take and helps to solve the problem of foreign influence,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I would not be surprised if people get creative and find ways around those requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/06\/business\/facebook-verification-ads.html\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the April 6, 2018, New York Times: Facebook\u2019s political-ad disclosures would in some ways do more than what is expected of television networks because the company would allow users to see all of the ads run by a group, said Travis Ridout, a Washington State University professor and co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8347,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[332],"wsuwp_university_org":[462],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ridout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}