Facebook’s updated political ads policy still stinks

The company will still allow politicians to lie in paid messages and microtarget voters as they wait on lawmakers to regulate the digital advertising business.

As painful as it was, I spent the morning researching the returns from the 2016 presidential election. The objective was to jog my memory of which states Hillary Clinton lost that Barack Obama won in 2012. 

There were six of ‘em: Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The difference in votes cast for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton i…