Additional Steps to Protect the 2020 US Presidential Election
New Steps to Protect the 2020 US Elections
Facebook BusinessToday we’re taking additional steps to help secure the integrity of the US elections by encouraging voting, connecting people with authoritative information and reducing the risks of post-election confusion.
In addition to updates related to misinformation, COVID-19 and voter suppression, we won’t accept new electoral, political or social issue ads during the final week of the campaign. It's important that campaigns can run get out the vote campaigns, but in the final days of an election there may not be enough time to contest new claims. So while we won't allow the creation of new electoral, political or social issue ads — or allow the content of existing ads to be edited — advertisers will be able to continue running ads they started running before October 27, and they’ll be able to adjust the bid, budget and targeting of those ads. As is the case today, all such ads will be published transparently in our Ad Library that anyone, including fact-checkers and journalists, can access.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 outlined in today’s announcement 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.
For the full list of updates from today, please visit the Facebook Newsroom. You can also learn more about the advertising restriction period and best practices for running ads about social issues, elections and politics in advance of Election Day.Get Facebook Business news in your inbox.
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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 outlined in today’s announcement 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.
For the full list of updates from today, please visit the Facebook Newsroom. You can also learn more about the advertising restriction period and best practices for running ads about social issues, elections and politics in advance of Election Day.Related Articles
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