Facebook bans 'militarized' calls for poll watching during election
Facebook said Wednesday that it would step up enforcement against posts designed to interfere with voting at polling places, as the company prepares for the possibility of violence leading up to next month's election.
In a new policy, Facebook said it would remove posts that use militarized language to call for people to participate in poll watching.
Monika Bickert, Facebook's vice president of content policy, said the company would not apply the restrictions on militarized language retroactively.
Bickert said the change in policy was driven in part by an evolution of language that Facebook had observed as people fine-tuned ways to get around Facebook's earlier policies.
In a separate policy change, Rosen said Facebook would temporarily stop allowing all political ads on its services after polls close Nov.
The post-election quiet period is similar to one that Google adopted last month for ads on its services, including YouTube.
Facebook has announced a series of policy changes in recent weeks as concerns persist about the platforms impact on politics.
It has also said it will label posts from politicians declaring victory before results are in and ban ads with premature declarations of victory.Original article
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