Facebook said Wednesday that it will block all political and issue ads after polls close on Election Day — its latest attempt to avoid becoming a tool for manipulating an election already threatened by misinformation and attempts to influence the result
, and are scrambling to both protect American democracy and the company's reputation. But critics of the company say that Facebook often heeds warnings about issues on the platform only months, and sometimes years, after they've been raised.
The move is also meant to inoculate Facebook from charges that it is repeating the mistakes of 2016, when it allowed Russian forces and other nefarious actors to abuse the platform to sow chaos in that contest between Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. But Facebook is risking reviving complaints that it is rolling out changes too late.
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