Facebook widens ban on political ads as alarm rises over election

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SAN FRANCISCO (NYTIMES, AFP) - Over the past few weeks, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, and his lieutenants have watched the presidential race with an increasing sense of alarm.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SAN FRANCISCO - Over the past few weeks, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, and his lieutenants have watched the presidential race with an increasing sense of alarm.

The company now plans to prohibit all political and issue-based advertising after the polls close on Nov 3 for an undetermined length of time. And it said it would place notifications at the top of the News Feed notifying people that no winner had been decided until a victor was declared by news outlets.

Zuckerberg also said Facebook would not make any other changes until there was an official election result. Policies against voter intimidation instituted by Facebook four years ago have been consistently expanded to account for new trends and tactics to intimidate or prevent voting, according to vice president of content policy Monika Bickert.

 

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