Facebook is delaying its plans to require British political advertisers to verify their identity, the Guardian can reveal, after a spate of failures on the part of the company to vet disclosers in the UK and US. The social network will bring in the requirement “in the next month”, it says, pushing back the initial deadline of Wednesday 7 November. Facebook approved every disclosure, and the adverts entered the archive intact. Facebook said: “Since we announced our political ads authorisation and Ad Library in October we have seen hundreds of people go through the authorisation process. Twitter, for instance, also requires American political advertisers to disclose who paid for adverts, but requires that disclosure to be linked to an employer record, limiting the ability of potentially malicious actors to create fictional identities.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2018 13:37 UTC