Facebook announced it’s releasing new features that will allow people to see fewer political ads—but it still won't stop politicians from lying in them by MichaelFNunez
in a Thursday blog post that it’s releasing several new features that will allow people to see fewer political and social issue ads on both Facebook and Instagram—but it won’t reverse a controversial policy of letting politicians spread false claims in advertisements.
“While Twitter has chosen to block political ads and Google has chosen to limit the targeting of political ads, we are choosing to expand transparency and give more controls to people when it comes to political ads,” Facebook said in aFacebook’s political advertising policy is notably more lenient than both its rivals Google and Twitter, which have limited and blocked political ads, respectively.
But Facebook remains staunch in its decision to allow political ads, even if they contain misleading claims, which it was criticized for after the company let President Donald Trump about his political rival Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
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