美国大选临近 Facebook允许用户关闭定向政治广告
新浪科技讯 北京时间1月9日晚间消息,据国外媒体报道,Facebook今日表示,正对其处理政治广告的方式进行一些调整,包括允许用户关闭某些广告定向工具,以便让用户尽量少看到政作为全球 大的社交网络,Facebook一直表示要遏制对其平台的政治操纵。此前,Facebook因未能有效抵御俄罗斯干预美国大选,未能阻止剑桥分析公司(Cambridge Analytica)滥用用户数据的行为而备受指责。
Sina Technology News on the evening of January 9, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, Facebook said today that it is making some adjustments to its way of handling political advertising, including allowing users to turn off some advertising targeting tools, so that users can see politics as little as possible. As the world's largest social network, Facebook has always said that it wants to curb political manipulation of its platform. Facebook has been criticized for failing to effectively resist Russian intervention in the US election and for failing to stop Cambridge analytics from abusing user data.
今年是美国的总统选举年,Facebook正在努力平息人们对其“相对不插手的广告政策”的批评。此次对政治广告的处理方式进行调整,也是希望提高此类广告的透明度。
Facebook今天表示,从今年夏天开始,公司将增加一个新的控制,允许人们在Facebook和Instagram上看到更少的政治和社会问题广告。这个功能是基于我们过去发布的‘广告 ’中的其他控制,允许人们看到更少的关于某些主题的广告,或者删除一些有趣的选项。
相比之下,Twitter去年10月禁止了政治广告。Google还表示,将停止让广告主使用公共选民记录和一般政治背景等数据来投放选举广告。其他在线平台,如Spotify、Pinterest、TikTok也发布了相关禁令。
对此,Facebook产品管理总监罗布·利森(Rob Leathern)称,Facebook也曾考虑过像谷歌那样施加限制,但 终决定不这么做,因为内部数据显示,美国总统候选人投放的大多数广告的定向都很广泛,受众超过25万人。
In response, rob leathern, Facebook's product management director, said that Facebook had considered imposing restrictions like Google, but finally decided not to do so, because internal data showed that most of the ads launched by US presidential candidates were widely targeted and attracted more than 250000 people.
利森说:“我们的政策的基础是,人们应该能够听取那些希望领导他们的人的意见。”(李明)