Posts from state-controlled media organizations that enter the Facebook News Feed will also get slapped with a label indicating their government origins.
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Ahead of the presidential election, Facebook will block state-controlled media outlets from advertising to US-based users.
The ban is intended to prevent a foreign government from manipulating American public opinion in the run-up to Election Day on Nov. 3. “State-controlled media outlets rarely advertise in the US. Nevertheless, later this summer we will begin blocking ads from these outlets in the US out of an abundance of caution,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, wrote in a news release today.
Facebook posts from state-controlled media organizations that enter your News Feed will also get slapped with a label that’ll indicate their government origins. The company will start labeling the posts next week in the US. You’ll also find the label when you visit the media organization’s Facebook page.
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“We believe people should know if the news they read is coming from a publication that may be under the influence of a government,” Gleicher added.
