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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern

Why Facebook won’t be influential in the UK general election

Rishi Sunak and his likely successor, Labour leader Keir Starmer.
Rishi Sunak and his likely successor, Labour leader Keir Starmer. Photograph: Molly Darlingtonandy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images

You’ve heard the one about the drunk man looking for his keys under the streetlamp? After an age pacing back and forth, scouring the floor for them, his friend asks him where he thinks he dropped them. He points across the road, to a patch of darkness. “Why aren’t you looking there, then,” he friend asks. He shrugs. “Because this is where the light is.” Good joke. Everybody laughs.

Let’s talk about online political adverts.

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