Facebook Gets No Decision from FEC on Ad Disclaimers
ClickZ:
"Facebook hoped today was the day it would get a decision from the Federal Election Commission regarding disclaimers in political ads on the site. Alas, the six commissioners could not muster the four-vote majority required to hand down an advisory opinion on the matter.
At stake is whether political candidates or groups running Facebook ads must include disclaimers regarding who paid for the ads within the ads themselves.
'Zero percent' of ads on Facebook currently include such disclaimers, said a Facebook representative during today's public FEC meeting, suggesting that the commission simply approve what is already occurring in political Facebook ads. 'If you were to adopt [an advisory opinion requiring disclaimers], you will cause an enormous amount of disruption in the campaign world, probably greater disruption than this agency has done' in several years, he said."
