Facebook tightens political ad bans as US election nears
With just over a month to go before Americans head en masse to the polls in an extraordinarily contentious election, Facebook is expanding restrictions on politicaladvertising, including new bans on messages claiming widespread voter fraud
Banned ads would include calling a method of voting inherently fraudulent or corrupt, or using isolated incidents of voter fraud to delegitimize the result of an election, Rob Leathern, Facebook's director of product management, tweeted.
The ban includes ads that call an election into question because the result isn't determined on the final day of voting.
Also banned are advertisements portraying voting or census participation as meaningless and advising people not to take part.
Facebook had already unveiled a raft of measures this month to prevent its platform from being used to sow chaos and spread misinformation before, during and after the U.S. Before that, it said would restrict new political ads in the week before the election and remove posts that convey misinformation about COVID-19 and voting.
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