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The difference is the disclosure. Only on the other you know that money is being used to affect your opinion on something.


Excellent point. Though it can be easy to miss the tiny text that says "advertisement".

I recall buying Facebook ads for places in the early days of their system that benefited off this & having it say which friends also liked this content.




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