Facebook says it will temporarily suspend all political and issue ads starting immediately after election night.
“We plan to temporarily stop running all social issue, electoral, and political ads in the U.S. after the polls close on November 3, to reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse,” Facebook said in a new policy statement Wednesday.
Because more people will vote using mail-in ballots in the current election, it’s expected that the vote counting could go on for days or weeks after election night. Experts have worried that candidates might sew confusion and discord by declaring victory before all those mail-in votes have been counted.
Facebook said in September that it would stop running political ads in the week prior to the election because there would be no time for campaigns and users to fact-check claims made in the ads before election night. But it did not at that time ban ads after election night. After Fast Company pointed out that campaigns could use the ads to…
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