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Google to block election ads after November 3

Social media companies have been facing growing pressure to stop carrying ads that spread false information and could steer election results.

Facebook Inc FB.O also said it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the election and would reject ads that seek to claim victory before the results of the election are declared.

Twitter Inc TWTR.N banned political ads last year, while Google has previously limited the ways election advertisers could micro-target voters.

Googles new policy will target ads that are explicitly election-related as well as any other types of ads that reference federal or state elections, or ads that run based on targeting election-related search queries, the Axios report said.

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