Michael R. Strain, Columnist

Facebook Fixes Won't Be Easy

What exactly constitutes a "political or issue ad"? How would the platform exclude bots without excluding some humans?

April 20, 2018 at 12:00 PM UTC

Michael R. Strain is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is director of economic policy studies and Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of “The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It).”

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