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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 because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. If your ad was contextually relevant to a user’s search query, it had a good chance of “winning”?—?and And the FEC?—?that’s

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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 because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. If your ad was contextually relevant to a user’s search query, it had a good chance of “winning”?—?and And the FEC?—?that’s