“After years of pitching its suite of social media apps as the lifeblood of campaigns, Meta is breaking up with politics. The company has decreased the visibility of politics-focused posts and accounts on Facebook and Instagram as well as imposed new rules on political advertisers, kneecapping the targeting system long used by politicians to reach potential voters.” In many ways, politicians used Facebook targeting and shady marketing to corrupt our elections. Now that Meta is moving away from political content, how will things change? Bigly. “Comparing March 2020 to March 2024, both the Biden and Trump campaigns saw 60 percent declines in their average engagement per Facebook post … The 25 most-cited news organizations in the United States lost 75 percent of their total user engagement on Facebook and 58 percent of interactions on Instagram between the first quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2024.” WaPo (Gift Article): As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters.