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It's close to it. I can't remember ever seeing an ad in my newsfeed that was incorrectly labeled with a political affiliation disclaimer. Have you?


From what my results indicate, they stop the ads from running. So you wouldn't see ads that were incorrectly labeled, you WOULDN'T see ads that should be running but were incorrectly flagged as needing a political affiliation label.

And from the looks of the Yoga ads, there are hundreds that have been flagged/paused as needing to disclose they are political (when they actually aren't.)


Your anecdotal experience is completely irrelevant to the statement that you made.


Thank you, captain obvious, and it's actually not. If the system was doing poorly, we'd be able to directly observe it.

Do you have evidence that their political ad detection does poorly?


I don't have any evidence, because I don't use Facebook. Furthermore, I never made any claims to provide evidence for.

Do you have evidence or source for the claim you made? Or are you just here to call people silly names and pass anecdotes off as fact?


Anecdotally someone may have evidence of poor performance. Assigning a specific number to its statistical probability based on that anecdotal evidence is where the problem lies.


That's not how statistics, or debate, works




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