{"id":114,"date":"2019-08-29T20:10:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/?p=114"},"modified":"2019-08-29T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:14:10","slug":"facebook-announces-improved-political-transparency-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/facebook-announces-improved-political-transparency-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Announces Improved Political Transparency Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>After initially dismissing the notion (that they enabled the influence of foreign actors on the 2016 US Presidential election), Facebook has since been forced into action, resulting in a range of new rules and regulations around how advertisers can use its ads for political campaigning. (<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmediatoday.com\/news\/facebook-seeks-to-strengthen-its-political-ad-requirements-ahead-of-2020-us\/561892\/\"><em>Andrew Hutchinson, Social Media Today<\/em><\/a><em>) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while that&#8217;s all good and (s)well, I don&#8217;t have much faith in Americans anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly, we raised our children with an undercurrent of the idea that people are good&#8230; people are thoughtful and treat each other with dignity and respect. There was never a doubt that that idea applied to MOST people. That is until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/18\/arts\/television\/rupert-murdoch-roger-ailes-fox.html\">Roger Ailes started fueling the animosity<\/a> that rages under the surface of our culture and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Whde50AacZs\">Donald Trump really let the crazies out<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After initially dismissing the notion (that they enabled the influence of foreign actors on the 2016 US Presidential election), Facebook has since been forced into action, resulting in a range of new rules and regulations around how advertisers can use its ads for political campaigning. (Andrew Hutchinson, Social Media Today) And while that&#8217;s all good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}