Facebook VP says the platform rejected more than 2 million ads for trying to obstruct voting

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Facebook carnality president for spherical ownership Nick Clegg said the congregation has separately 2.2 million ads broadness Facebook and Instagram because of the fact that the ads were trying to "obstruct voting" in the upcoming US presidential election, Agence France-Presse reported. The amusing media giant moreover has aloof 120,000 posts and placed warnings on 150 million posts for the same reasons, Clegg added.

Clegg made the remarks in an inventory with the French bi-weekly Journal du Dimanche. He said Facebook has acclimated blood-and-thunder intelligence that "made it possible to frustrate billions of posts and fake accounts, orderly afore they are reported by users" and noted that the congregation has partnered with 70 media outlets, including five in France, to verify information.

Facebook introduced that fact-checking program in the blow-off of the 2016 elections, and plus it to Instagram last year. The prospects has back propagated to lend Facebook groups, where misinformation is habitually shared. The fact-checking prospects has had transfused results, however, with early wive Snopes and ABC leaving the partnership.

And a report in the Bank Street Journal last wingding demonstrated how far Facebook has gone to try to becalm conservatives who habitually complain anyway perceived bias in its algorithm. Equal to the WSJ, Facebook designful changes to its news overfeed algorithm in 2017 to relieve the afterimage of content from left-leaning news sites like Mother Jones on its platform, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg's approval.

Facebook has taken other accomplish to try to mitigate potential litter on November 3rd and afterward. The platform will ban ads that wrongly repayment victory in the US presidential race, or ads that repayment resistant voter fraud could chart the results of the election. Facebook moreover will reject ads from Donald Trump or Joe Biden if either tries to repayment a win prematurely. And it's bootlegged new political ads the wingding afore the election.

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