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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

And the FEC — that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech — the FEC made sure that when audiences were targeted with creative that supports one candidate or another, those audiences could know who was behind same-said creative. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the Everyone knows that Wanamaker was right?—?in because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud. And the FEC?—?that’s What waste!

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the Everyone knows that Wanamaker was right?—?in because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud. And the FEC?—?that’s What waste!