Facebook Cracks Down On U.S. Political Advertisers Ahead of 2020 Election

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Facebook is demanding more information about organizations seeking to run political advertisements from mid-September until the 2020 U.S. Presidential election by MichaelFNunez

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Lexi Sturdy, election war room lead, left, talks with researcher Andre Souza during a demonstration in the war room, where Facebook monitors election related content on the platform, in Menlo Park, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. , government website domain that matches an email ending in .gov or .mil, or Federal Election Commission identification number.

Facebook started requiring political advertisements to disclose who paid for them in May 2018. The"Paid For By" disclosure at the top of the ad was meant to tell users who paid for each ad showing up in their news feeds. But afound that the feature was easily manipulated and allowed advertisers to falsely identify the person or organization financing endorsements and information campaigns.

Social media ads — particularly those run on Facebook — have become an essential tool in political campaigns in the last two U.S. presidential elections. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton spent a

 

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