According to multiple people within Facebook, the social media giant may ban all political ads, just months before the US election takes place on November
According to within Facebook, the social media giant may ban all political ads, just months before the US election takes place on November 3. This would be a major change of course for Facebook, who has repeatedly stated that it doesn’t want to take political sides, and wouldn’t ban ads. However, on the flip side for Facebook, this could help them curb misinformation, which spread pretty widely during the last presidential election. If Facebook does indeed decide to ban all political ads, they would be following Twitter. Who decided to ban all of those ads last year. For Facebook and Twitter, it’s not so much about losing out on valuable ad dollars – and both Joe Biden and President Trump have a huge war chest to spend on advertising – but more about fighting misinformation.
