From Facebook to Twitter: How social media platforms handle political ads
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platforms including Facebook and Alphabet Inc's Google
face growing pressure to stop carrying political ads that contain
false or misleading claims ahead of the US presidential election. In
the United States, the Communications Act prevents broadcast stations
from rejecting or censoring ads from candidates for federal office
once they have accepted advertising for that political race, although
this does not apply to cable networks like CNN, or to social media
sites, where leading presidential candidates are spending millions to
target voters in the run-up to the November 2020 election.
The
following is how social media platforms have decided to handle false
or misleading claims in political ads:
Facebook
Facebook
exempts politicians from its third-party fact-checking program,
allowing them to run ads with false claims.
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