Twitter will No longer Run Political Ads, CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday.
Twitter is Removing itself from that Contentious Tangle as U.S. Political Campaigns Prepare to Spend Vast Sums of Money on Online Advertising around the 2020 Elections.
The New Policy Applies Worldwide, not Just in the U.S., and to Issue Ads as well as Ads Run by Specific Political Campaigns.
Facebook announced a Number of Changes it is making to Prepare for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Facebook is going to more Prominently Label Posts that include False Information. These Labels will include a Gray Blurred Screen that says “False Information” that will Hide False and Partly False Photos and Videos.
Facebook said it Plans to introduce a U.S. Presidential Candidate Spend Tracker that will show Users how much Each Candidate has Spent on Facebook Ads. The Company said it is also Launching Facebook Protect, a New Tool Designed to “secure the accounts of elected officials, candidates, their staff and others who may be particularly vulnerable to targeting by hackers and foreign adversaries,” the company said.
Facebook said it will also Ban any Ads that suggest Voting is Useless or Advises People Not to Vote. Facebook will also Label State-Controlled Media.
Facebook will require that Pages that Post Ads about Social and Political Issues include a “Confirmed Page Owner” on their Facebook Pages. These Pages will include “the organization’s legal name and verified city, phone number or website.”
“If we find a Page is concealing its ownership in order to mislead people, we will require it to successfully complete the verification process and show more information in order for the Page to stay up,” Facebook said. “The bottom line here is that elections have changed significantly since 2016, and Facebook has changed too,” Zuckerberg said.
Asked what would happen if a Political Candidate tried to Purchase an Advertisement containing False Information with the Intent of Voter Suppression, Zuckerberg said, “Voter suppression rules would be paramount in that case.”
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