Proposed Social Media Advertising Regulations: Demographic Transperency

Some regulation I’d like to see for social network ads, at least for political ads:

– Make all ads publicly viewable along with the targeting demographics. So everybody can see, for example, that a politician is pushing xenophobia to older people.

– Some kind of “fake news” score associated with a campaign. This one is difficult, but I could imagine a score based on a mixture of “fake news scoring providers” from across the ideological divide and news orgs.

The point is to give voters some transparency into what a politician is actually campaigning on.