Facebook wont accept ads that delegitimize U.S. election results

For example, this 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.

Facebook says it will also not allow ads that discourage users from voting, undermine vote-by-mail or other lawful voting methods, suggest voter fraud is widespread, threaten safe voting through false health claims and ads that suggest the vote is invalid because results might not be immediately known on election night.

Both Twitter and Facebook recently issued new guidelines on how they will handle claims of election victory prior to official results, though Facebooks rules appear to only apply to those claims if theyre made in advertising. Weve asked Facebook for clarification about how those claims will be handled outside of ads, on a candidates normal account.

While Twitter opted to no longer accept political advertising across the board, Facebook is instead tweaking its rules about what kinds of political ads it will allow and when.

During Tuesday nights debate, Trump again cast doubt about voting by mail and declined to commit to accepting election results in the event that he loses.

A handful of states including Colorado and Oregon already conducted elections through the mail and vote-by-mail is just a scaled-up version of the absentee voting systems already in place nationwide.

The state will reissue the ballots, but Trump seized on the incident as evidence that vote by mail is a scam a claim that evidence does not bear out.

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