Social media giant Facebook has announced plans to ban new political ads for the week leading up to Election Day on November 3. Mark Zuckerberg announced the ban along with several other changes because he fears “there could be an increased risk of civil unrest across the country.”
A series of ads from President Donald Trump’s campaign highlights former Vice President Joe Biden’s weak response to violence and rioting in America’s major cities.
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign announced on Wednesday it was launching the largest ad buy in history ahead of the November general election.
Social media giant Facebook has reportedly closed what it considers to be a loophole in its political advertising system ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. When Facebook users post an election ad to the platform, it will now include a “paid for by” label in the same manner as when a campaign pays for the ad to appear on the site.
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A recent report from The Stranger alleges that Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed suit against Facebook for violation of state campaign finance laws. According to Ferguson, Facebook has “repeatedly and openly violated” Washington state law related to the disclosure of who funds political ads.
Social media giant Facebook has removed Trump campaign ads which refer to an online survey as the “Official 2020 Congressional District Census,” claiming the ads violate the company’s policy on disinformation and interference with the 2020 census.
A small group of left-wing protesters gathered outside of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s home in Mission District to protest the company’s use of personal data and its decision not to regulate certain political advertisements.
Gab, the First Amendment-based social network offering a free-speech-friendly alternative to increasingly censorious platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, has launched a political advertising service.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated during a recent speech that the company is going to “piss off a lot of people” as Facebook focuses on free expression over censorship. According to Zuckerberg, it “feels like the list of things that you’re not allowed to say socially keeps on growing.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) condemned Facebook’s “shameful” behavior during a press conference Thursday, claiming that Silicon Valley does not care about the platform’s allegedly harmful effects on society.
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill has deleted his Facebook account over the social media site’s refusal to fact check political ads on its platform. According to Hamill, Mark Zuckerberg “values profit more than truthfulness” as demonstrated by his decision not to censor political ads. Facebook says its policy is based on the “principle that people should be able to hear from those who wish to lead them, warts and all, and that what they say should be scrutinized and debated in public.”
The New York Times reports that Facebook is continuing to refuse to fact check political advertisements on its platform despite intense pressure to do so.
Music streaming giant Spotify won’t accept U.S. political advertisements ahead of the 2020 presidential election, following a similar decision made earlier this year by Twitter.
Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale condemned Google’s policy of restricting microtargeted ads in an interview for Fox News this weekend. Parscale theorizes that Google’s management made the decision while saying, “Oh my God, we’ve got to stop them. They’re going to win again in a landslide and we can’t be part of it.”
Left-wing tech magazine Wired published a study claiming that Facebook’s system of political ads is “designed to polarize,” because it targets voters who are most likely to be interested in its content, i.e, political partisans. Facebook says the findings should not come as a surprise.
In a recent interview with CBS This Morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on the firm’s recent decision not to fact check ads by politicians.
More than 300 of President Donald Trump’s political ads have taken down by Google and its video platform YouTube, mostly over the summer, according to a report by 60 minutes.
The Trump campaign, The Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee have condemned Google’s decision to ban targeted political ads, calling it a “blatant attempt to suppress voter information, knowledge, and engagement.”
Google reportedly plans to ban political advertisers from targeting election ads using data such as public voter records and general political affiliations.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly sat down with Al Sharpton for a meeting at the CEO’s home this week.
Facebook’s head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, has defended the company’s decision to include Breitbart News in the social media site’s curated News tab.
Twitter will ban all political ads globally, in a move that sets the platform apart from Facebook, which considered doing the same but decided against it.
Employees at Facebook recently signed a letter asking the company to reverse its decision to exempt political candidates’ ads from its fact-checking program.
YouTube is stepping up its game against Facebook and local TV stations for a greater share of political campaign advertising dollars ahead of the 2020 presidential election, according to a new report.
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign has canceled its plans for a $1.3 million ad buy in Iowa following reports of the presidential candidate undergoing emergency heart surgery to treat an arterial blockage.
Facebook is reportedly clamping down with rules relating to political ads in the United States ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
A recent report from the New York Times alleges that Facebook’s ad library, designed to increase transparency and fight disinformation, is so flawed, it has become effectively useless as a method by which to track political messaging.
Facebook is sticking to its November decision to exempt news publishers from its political ads database, drawing criticism for making deference to the mainstream media more important than its stated commitment to transparency.
Facebook is changing its political advertising rules to ban parties and campaigns from advertising in countries where they do not have a representative.
