Facebook implements new rules to prevent voter intimidation
The video was widely criticized by civil rights leaders as being a call to arms and an attempt to interfere with the voting process.
The policy was implemented to remove content that was not already prohibited under the platform's policies, such as posts which encourage people to bring weapons to polling places, Bickert said.
Facebook also said it now plans to prohibit all political and issue-based advertising after the polls close on Election Day for an undetermined length of time.
If a candidate or party declares victory before a race is called by major media outlets, Facebook said it would add more specific information in the notifications that counting is still in progress and no winner has been determined.
The company has already removed thousands of pages, but the challenge will be trying to keep up with groups and users that try to go around Facebook's specific rules.
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