WASHINGTON (AP) — With just over a month to go before Americans head en masse to the polls in an extraordinarily contentious election, Facebook is expanding restrictions on political advertising, including new bans on messages claiming widespread voter fraud. The ban includes ads that call an election into question because the result isn’t determined on the final day of voting. Also banned are advertisements portraying voting or census participation as meaningless and advising people not to take part. The census numbers are used to decide how many congressional seats each state gets for the next decade. Before that, it said would restrict new political ads in the week before the election and remove posts that convey misinformation about COVID-19 and voting.

Source: Ethiopian News October 01, 2020 14:15 UTC