Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook will now allow users to turn off political ads | BISouthAfrica
Facebook will now allow users to turn off political ads, the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a USA Today op-ed published Tuesday.
Users will be able to turn off ads about political, social, and electoral issues from political candidates, super PACs, and other organisations who have a the political disclaimer on them indicating that an ad is"paid for by" a certain entity, CNBC reported.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the platform will allow its users to turn off political ads.
Zuckerberg also announced in his op-ed that Facebook will take steps to boost voter registration, voter turnout, and marginalised voices ahead of the 2020 presidential election, and that the platform's aim is to help four million people register to vote. The social media network has been under the microscope particularly in the last few weeks, after it refused to follow Twitter's lead in fact-checking President Donald Trump's misleading statements on its platform.
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