{"id":19827,"date":"2019-10-30T23:03:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T06:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19827"},"modified":"2019-10-30T23:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T06:03:35","slug":"zuckerberg-doubles-down-on-facebooks-own-ad-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19827","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook&#8217;s own ad policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday ardently defended Facebook&#8217;s controversial political advertising policy, just over an hour after Twitter announced it will ban all political ads from its platform.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg kicked off Facebook&#8217;s quarterly earnings call by addressing the firestorm of criticism that his company has faced this month over its policy allowing politicians to lie in advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>Just before Facebook&#8217;s earnings call, Dorsey hit Zuckerberg in his announcement that Twitter will no longer run any political advertising on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although I&#8217;ve considered whether we should not carry [political] ads in the past, and I&#8217;ll continue to do so, on balance so far I&#8217;ve thought we should continue,&#8221; Zuckerberg told investors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ads can be an important part of voice &#8212; especially for candidates and advocacy groups the media might not otherwise cover so they can get their message into debates,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19828,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19827\/revisions\/19828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}