Facebook to publish data on Irish abortion referendum ads

Despite the fact that transparency is a good thing, what will happen now ? Every time someone loose an election the will blame Facebook (or Google or anyone) ?<p>I understand that when the result are tight it’s important to be fully transparent, but the election looser always have an excuse (It’s FB, it was too sunny so people went picnic, etc...)<p>I’m speaking generally, not on this specific election. Just wondering what future elections result will be

This is great news. However, I saw the most ads on Youtube; it would be great if Google followed suit and released similar data.<p>I hope this sets a precedent for publishing ad spending in future referenda too.

Using the banner of &quot;transparency&quot; to stifle political advertising is just censorship through other means.<p>We should instead explicitly allow and protect unlimited anonymous political messaging.

as long as it remains anonymized I see no problem with revealing the money. it is when it becomes public who donated that issues arise. at most I could see revealing country of origin

I wonder if this is going to be a one-off, or if perhaps this is a test for larger elections&#x2F;referendums to come.