Facebook Discourages Conservative Author’s Attempts At Boosting Advertising For His Book

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, the brilliant Israeli conservative philosopher Yoram Hazony tells the story of how Facebook quashed his attempts to publicize his new book, “The Virtue of Nationalism.”

Hazony begins by noting that he was trying to take advantage of Facbook’s offer to “boost my post,” their way of suggesting he buy advertising. Hazony pressed “Boost Post,” then obsessively followed the click count every four minutes. Facebook alerted him, “Your ad is doing better than most promotions on Facebook.”