New York, 4th September: Facebook says it will limit some advertising in the week before the US presidential election in November 2020.
According to reports from the international media, Facebook has decided to limit some advertisements before the US elections this year.
However, Facebook says it will continue to let politicians run ads with lies.
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Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg says steps are meant to halt misinformation and prevent civil unrest.
As reported in the CNN News, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would not accept new political ads in the final week of the 2020 election campaign.
Facebook says it will limit some advertising in the week before the US presidential election — but it will continue to let politicians run ads with lies https://t.co/drJXcaq706
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) September 3, 2020
The company will remove posts that claim that people will get COVID-19 if they take part in the voting, and it will label misinformation about the election and voting.
Facebook (FB) will continue to allow campaigns to run ads bought before the final week. Those ads can still run through Election Day.
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However, Zuckerberg made no indication that Facebook would change its policy of allowing politicians to lie in targeted ads, meaning political candidates will be able to run false ads on the platform up until election day.
“It’s important that campaigns can run get out the vote campaigns, and I generally believe the best antidote to bad speech is more speech,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. “But in the final days of an election, there may not be enough time to contest new claims.”
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Facebook’s temporary restrictions on political advertising will lift after Election Day, the company told CNN, indicating it does not believe the same preemptive precautions are necessary for the anticipation of a chaotic election with ambiguous results.
Zuckerberg said that the company will rely on results reported by Reuters as well as a coalition of other news organizations known as the National Elections Pool.
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