For Georgia Senate hopefuls, Facebook ads are back

With early voting underway in the hotly contested Georgia Senate runoffs and TV ads already blanketing the airwaves, Facebook decided it is a pretty good time to start up the old ad machine again. In a Tuesday blog post, the social media behemoth said that as of Wednesday, eligible advertisers would be allowed to place ads about the Jan. 5 races “in the state of Georgia only.” That still allows for a lot of content, and money, to flow. Earlier this fall, Facebook announced a suspension of political ads as a way to fight election misinformation, after months of a deluge from candidates and interest groups up and down the ticket and across the country. Now the ads are back, with Georgia candidates and the interest groups that care about them flooding smartphones with talk of the dangers of socialism or the crucial nature of these twin elections. “Control of the U.S. Senate comes down to Georgia,” says one new ad for Democrat Jon Ossoff. President Donald Trump, though on his way out of the White House, is hardly in the rearview in the ad sphere.  » Read More