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May 5, 2017

Why local newspapers were right to run Tory front-page ads on local election day

By Dominic Ponsford

I suspect many of those complaining about the Conservative Party front-page wrap-around ads in many local newspapers this week are not regular newspaper buyers themselves.

— Richy Johnson (@RichyJ91) May 4, 2017

By contrast the sort of personalised political advertising which appears on Facebook is subject to little oversight and can mean that different voters in the same constituency receive contradictory messages. It also almost impossible to regulate.

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