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US Election: Facebook Will Ban Political Ads Announcing Victory Ahead of Official Results in November
Welcome to "The Outwrite Podcast". This article is published on www.theoutwrite.com by Varun Singh Rajput.
Facebook will deny all the political ads hosted by either Donald Trump or Joe Biden spreading any misinformation and announcing victory before the results of the 2020 election come out in public.
September 3, 2020 – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted that “We’re going to block new political and issue ads during the final week of the campaign. It’s important that campaigns can run get out the vote campaigns, and I generally believe the best antidote to bad speech is more speech, but in the final days of an election, there may not be enough time to contest new claims. So in the week before the election, we won’t accept new political or issue ads. Advertisers will be able to continue running ads they started running before the final week and adjust the targeting for those ads, but those ads will already be published transparently in our Ads Library so anyone, including fact-checkers and journalists, can scrutinize them.”
The objective of policy update in early September to rule out any possibility of election interference using Facebook. The role of social media in elections has been questioned time and again, however, such steps would ensure the fairness at some level.
The policy update also confirmed that Facebook would apply an “informational label” to posts raise questions or doubts about the legitimacy of the U.S election. The posts claiming victory before the official results are outfall for the same label.
Mark Zuckerberg in September 3 blog post also mentioned that “It’s important to recognize that there may be legitimate concerns about the electoral process over the coming months. We want to make sure people can speak up if they encounter problems at the polls or have been prevented from voting, but that doesn’t extend to spreading misinformation. We’ll enforce the policies I outlined above as well as all our existing policies around voter suppression and voting misinformation, but to ensure there are clear and consistent rules, we are not planning to make further changes to our election-related policies between now and the official declaration of the result. It’s important to recognize that there may be legitimate concerns about the electoral process over the coming months. We want to make sure people can speak up if they encounter problems at the polls or have been prevented from voting, but that doesn’t extend to spreading misinformation. We’ll enforce the policies I outlined above as well as all our existing policies around voter suppression and voting misinformation, but to ensure there are clear and consistent rules, we are not planning to make further changes to our election-related policies between now and the official declaration of the result.”
Facebook communications rep, Andy Stone also tweeted, “We will be rejecting political ads that claim victory before the results of the 2020 election have been declared.”
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Welcome to "The Outwrite Podcast". This article is published on www.theoutwrite.com by Varun Singh Rajput.
Facebook will deny all the political ads hosted by either Donald Trump or Joe Biden spreading any misinformation and announcing victory before the results of the 2020 election come out in public.
September 3, 2020 – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted that “We’re going to block new political and issue ads during the final week of the campaign. It’s important that campaigns can run get out the vote campaigns, and I generally believe the best antidote to bad speech is more speech, but in the final days of an election, there may not be enough time to contest new claims. So in the week before the election, we won’t accept new political or issue ads. Advertisers will be able to continue running ads they started running before the final week and adjust the targeting for those ads, but those ads will already be published transparently in our Ads Library so anyone, including fact-checkers and journalists, can scrutinize them.”
The objective of policy update in early September to rule out any possibility of election interference using Facebook. The role of social media in elections has been questioned time and again, however, such steps would ensure the fairness at some level.
The policy update also confirmed that Facebook would apply an “informational label” to posts raise questions or doubts about the legitimacy of the U.S election. The posts claiming victory before the official results are outfall for the same label.
Mark Zuckerberg in September 3 blog post also mentioned that “It’s important to recognize that there may be legitimate concerns about the electoral process over the coming months. We want to make sure people can speak up if they encounter problems at the polls or have been prevented from voting, but that doesn’t extend to spreading misinformation. We’ll enforce the policies I outlined above as well as all our existing policies around voter suppression and voting misinformation, but to ensure there are clear and consistent rules, we are not planning to make further changes to our election-related policies between now and the official declaration of the result. It’s important to recognize that there may be legitimate concerns about the electoral process over the coming months. We want to make sure people can speak up if they encounter problems at the polls or have been prevented from voting, but that doesn’t extend to spreading misinformation. We’ll enforce the policies I outlined above as well as all our existing policies around voter suppression and voting misinformation, but to ensure there are clear and consistent rules, we are not planning to make further changes to our election-related policies between now and the official declaration of the result.”
Facebook communications rep, Andy Stone also tweeted, “We will be rejecting political ads that claim victory before the results of the 2020 election have been declared.”
Thanks for your time, please share your valuable feedback & comments - our email address is: [email protected].