If I had a nickel for every time I’ve suggested that you dump Fakebook, we could all retire in comfort.  I trust you know that Fakebook was a major vehicle for distributing Republican lies from Russian bots to help Trump* steal the White House in 2016.  Fakebook’s claims that they didn’t know those accounts were Russian fall flat, because Russia paid the bill for them in Rubles.  Fakebook now has a new way to assist Trump this year.  That’s another reason to unplug!

Facebook this week said it would bar political ads in the seven days before the presidential election. That could prevent dirty tricks or an “October surprise” and give watchdogs time to fact-check statements. But rather than responding with glee, election officials say the move leaves them worried.

Included in the ban are ads purchased by election officials — secretaries of state and boards of elections — who use Facebook to inform voters about how voting will work. The move effectively removes a key communication channel just as millions of Americans will begin to navigate a voting process different from any they’ve experienced before.

“Every state’s elections office has a very small communications office that is doing everything that they can to get the word out about the election,” said Gabe Rosenberg, the communications director for Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill (who is not related to this reporter). “This just makes it a little bit harder, for, as far as I can see, no real gain.”

The rule change was announced Thursday in a Facebook post  [Fakebook delinked] by the site’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Previously, Facebook’s rules [Fakebook delinked] for fact-checking certain campaign ads but not others have come under fire. Taken together, they demonstrate how Facebook has become an integral piece of the American democratic process — but one that is controlled by the decisions of a private corporation, which can set rules in its own interest…

Inserted from <Raw Story>

NYT columnist on Facebook’s new rules to ban new political ads one week before the election

Here’s the rest of the story.  The only people that this rule cuts off are political campaigns and governmental organizations.  Other organizations that disseminate political messages on Fakebook are dominated by the extreme right, so the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, Breitfart, and thousands of Russian bots, courtesy of Putin [R-RU], are free to spew their garbage on Fakebook at an even higher rate than they did in 2016.

If Fakebook really wanted to protect their users victims, they could outlaw all political messaging for six months before elections and US political messaging from foreign accounts at all times, but that will never happen.  Why?  It would take too many Rubles out of Mark Fuckerberg’s pocket!

With Fakebook, the only way to win is not to play!

Unplug!

RESIST!!