Friends says politicians should be no pal of Facebook

TORONTO – Watchdog group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting launched a newspaper ad campaign this morning urging Canadian political parties to “unfriend Facebook”.The group's Unfriend Facebook ad has appeared in various Postmedia publications, including the National Post, The Ottawa Citizen, and the Sun papers. Friends plans to place the ad in dozens more publications across the country this week.The ad urges federal party leaders to Unfriend Facebook by closing a tax loophole that subsidizes the price of ads sold by foreign internet media giants with 1.6 billion public dollars a year. Cartt.ca has recently reported on their work on this issue."The...