The platform also plans to label posts that claim premature victory for a candidate before the final results are in, it announced on Thursday.
Facebook will block all new political ads during the week leading up to Election Day on November 3, and remove any posts that spread misinformation or try to suppress voting, the company’s CEO Mark ZuckerbergFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the election-related changes in a post on Thursday.
Zuckerberg said that the company will block all new political and issue ads during the final week of the campaign, but advertisers will be able to continue running ads that started running before the final week.
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