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Banning political ads on social media is a technological solution to a political problem | The Indian Express

Written by Ruchi Gupta |Updated: November 19, 2019 9:30:46 am

The writer is AICC joint secretary in charge of the student wing of the Congress. She tweets @guptar

Banning political ads on social media is a technological solution to a political problem

While some regulation is indeed desirable, it is important to ensure that we do not cede control over our democratic processes to private platforms.

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Facebook has carved out an exception for paid political ads from its fact-checking programme on the grounds that it is not the role of Facebook to adjudicate political speech in a democracy.

The central problem at the heart of all electoral politics is the challenge of mass communication. Social media offers the ability to communicate with the masses with a hitherto impossible specificity. This has thrown up hotly-contested issues, especially after Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.