If there was ever a piece of no-brainer legislation that should be passed by Congress, it is the Honest Ads Act put forward last week by US senators Amy Klobuchar, Mark Warner and John McCain. This bipartisan group is asking for online political advertising to be subject to the same rules of disclosure as ads on television, print, and radio. The idea is to make sure that foreign nations like Russia cannot use platforms such as Facebook, Google or Twitter to influence US elections, as they did in 2016.
如果说美国历史上有一部无需国会动脑就应该通过的立法,那就是上周美国参议员埃米•克罗布彻(Amy Klobuchar)、马克•华纳(Mark Warner)和约翰•麦凯恩(John McCain)提出的《诚实广告法案》(Honest Ads Act)。这个两党小组要求在线政治广告遵循与电视、印刷、广播广告同样的信息披露规则。其出发点是确保俄罗斯等外国无法像在2016年那样利用Facebook、谷歌(Google)或Twitter等平台影响美国大选。