Meta extends political ad ban past Election Day
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Meta announced tuesday that is extending its restriction on political ad until later in the week, though IT did not specify which day the ban would be lifted. When I asked for more information, a meta spokesperson point attack runs to the announcement about the company working to protect the integrity of elections on facebook and instagram.

Meta initially announced there would be a ban on new political ads from october twenty until election day and implemented a similar policy in twenty and twenty two because candidates might not have enough time to contest new claims made in ads, x IOS reported. The outlet reported that matter is extending its ban to curb any misinformation that might spread while voters still be encountered. Not all political adds are banned, however, and those that ran before after to over twenty ninth at least once will still be allowed on meta platforms, so will have little capacity to make changes to the ads.

C, N, B, C, reported. Social media has once again become its own battle ground during the election, and companies are trying to prevent a repeat of the twenty twenty election chaos where this information was able to spread like wildfire. At the same time, there's an appeal battle tech laffer saw on a rope of trust and safety teams.

While the rise of generation A I has contributed to the increased spread of A I deep fakes used to spread false election information matters, not the only social giant taking precaution. Google announced that would also pause election ads in the U. S.

Until after the polls. S, the news comes as C N, B C also reports that political ad spending has topped nearly one billion dollars. Let's now kick IT over the producer, denis. But today, start a business news. And about one minute.

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