23-11-2016 18:16 via thedrum.com

Should political advertising be regulated?

We all know that political advertising can be brilliantly powerful, as we saw in Lyndon Johnson’s Daisy campaign, which took America by storm and got the country talking during his US presidential election campaign back in 1964. But the truth is, until Brexit occurred, many of us didn’t know that political advertising isn't regulated.
There isn’t any accountability or regulatory body similar to the ASA to check and approve political advertising, in the same way that they check
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