Facebook Stands Firm on Not Banning or Fact-Checking Political Ads
Facebook won’t ban or fact-check political marketing, and unlike Google, it won’t limit how political advertisements target specific groups, Product Management Director Rob Leathern announced Thursday. Democrats criticize Facebook for allowing politicians and candidates to lie in their ads. Leathern…
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said Facebook doesn’t think companies should make decisions about political commercials. Facebook will allow users to block political ads from feeds. Google is limiting political ad targeting and Twitter banned political ads (see 1912020041). “This does not mean that politicians can say whatever they like in advertisements on Facebook,” Leathern wrote: Users face community standards, which “apply to hate speech, harmful content and content designed to intimidate voters.”