> those ads are from real companies or organisations - they aren't fake bots or astroturf groups algorithmically designed to tell me what I want to hear.
How do you know this? As far as we know Google was also used to spread misinformation by Russian entities in the elections [1]. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Google invented targeted advertising. Hell, this is the company that boasted about A/B testing shades of blue to earn themselves $200m [2].
Sidenote: Google doesn't have access to your social information or what you "like", which was the reason behind Google+ and the big push to integrate it with Gmail and Youtube. The fact Google failed to get the same breath of social and preference information Facebook has doesn't mean they're more concerned with privacy, it just means they were late to the game and failed.
Google is more zealous about keeping its data to its own though.
I'm in the UK not US so I'm n to totally sure what sort of fake news US electors get.
However during Brexit and UK elections I get political ads and memes via FB. Google don't push that stuff at me.
Google if it (rarely) pushes politics at me pushes links from political parties or identifiable campaign groups. So if it is lies or fake then I and others can hold them to account.
FB often seems to be pushing fake stories - sometime started by fake users - actually started by who knows who. So Propaganda can't be held to account.
Actually I think Twitter problems are more similar to FB - except they maybe lack the deep profiling of social networks that FB have.
How do you know this? As far as we know Google was also used to spread misinformation by Russian entities in the elections [1]. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Google invented targeted advertising. Hell, this is the company that boasted about A/B testing shades of blue to earn themselves $200m [2].
Sidenote: Google doesn't have access to your social information or what you "like", which was the reason behind Google+ and the big push to integrate it with Gmail and Youtube. The fact Google failed to get the same breath of social and preference information Facebook has doesn't mean they're more concerned with privacy, it just means they were late to the game and failed.
Google is more zealous about keeping its data to its own though.
[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/10/09...
[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/05/why-googl...