Facebook Election – Fusion Nepal

Facebook isn’t going to let the clusterfuck of the 2016 U.S. election debacle happen again.

Starting Tuesday, the social network has banned all foreign advertisements related to Ireland’s abortion referendum, happening in a few weeks time.

On May 25, Ireland will vote to repeal or keep the country’s constitutional ban on abortion, and the Associated Press reports that U.S. based anti-abortion groups have secured online ads to try and influence this voteSounds familiar.

In a statement to the news agency, Facebook said it would “begin rejecting ads related to the referendum if they are being run by advertisers based outside of Ireland.” Read more…

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I, for one, welcome our new Zuckerberg overlord.

The terrifying sights you see above and below are enough to chill you to your core even before you log on to Facebook to see if any of your stupid friends from high school used the “This Is Your Digital Life” app and handed over all your data to Cambridge Analytica.

Zuckerberg is on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to finally testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in a highly-anticipated joint hearing about, well, all of the tire fires the social media platform has managed to set over the past few years. Read more…

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