Facebook Won’t Accept New Political Ads The Week Before The Election — But Older Ads With Lies Are Still OK – By Pranav Dixit (Buzzfeed) / Sept 3 2020
Facebook will also impose restrictions on forwarding links in Messenger.
Facebook will stop accepting political advertising in the United States a week before Election Day on Nov. 3, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post on Thursday.
But the social network will continue showing users all political ads that candidates or political action committees buy before that day, and continue to let these groups adjust who they target.
Candidates for political office will also still be able to run ads containing lies.
In Thursday’s announcement, Zuckerberg claimed he is adding the one-week ban on new ads prior to the election because he is “concerned” about the challenges people could face while voting.
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