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) Google face growing pressure to stop carrying political ads that contain false or misleading claims ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
Facebook’s Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has defended the company’s stance, arguing that it does not want to stifle political speech, but he also said the company was considering ways to refine the policy. Another change will be to allow users to choose to stop seeing ads based on an advertiser’s “Custom Audience” and that will apply to all types of advertising, not only political ads.) has banned political ads. In November, it said this will include ads that reference a political candidate, party, election or legislation, among other limits.
Officials from the Trump campaign, which is out-spending its Democratic rivals on Facebook and Google ads, called the ban “dumb” but also said it would have little effect on the president’s strategy.
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