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Who decides what is real or not?

What is "misinformation" or not?

Disturbing af

You're absolutely right... "dnjdirjrmrf"...

Objective reality doesn't exist, and there is no such thing as either misinformation or disinformation, and we should be frightened of anyone who tries to distinguish between them. Truth is lies and lies are truth.

Would you like your telephone company filtering your words to your friends and family based on what they define as "true"?

If I'm communicating with friends and colleagues and acquaintances, I do not need other people policing my speech

At least in that case Des Moines knew who paid for the ad. On FB there is no identity check(unless you consider credit/debit cards identity proof). Not to mention that you compare one ad with thousands on facebook. Facebook can't stop them even if it wants. The main reason is that the ads are too cheap to investigate properly. A bad actor can use multiple accounts. And when I say multiple I mean as many it wants. Times/Des Mines would not publish 100000 ads of 1$ each, each about Trump's policy(more or less) but facebook would do it.