It seems Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook can be bought if you are willing to fork over $1.7 million a week for "fake news" ads targeting an increasingly credulous audience. That is how much the tRump re-election campaign is paying Facebook. In return, the social media giant is allowing the lies contained in these ads to go unchecked and into circulation. There they are liked, shared and passed on as truth by millions of the president's* poorly educated fans.
Facebook claims this exception to their policy of not allowing obvious falsehoods in their ads is reserved for politicians, but it seems anyone with sufficient amounts of money can conjure their own reality and force the rest of us to share it.
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