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Facebook refuses to restrict untruthful political ads and micro-targeting

Twitter banned political ads outright in OctoberRival Google limits ad targeting to broad categoriesFacebook has decided not to limit how political ads can be targeted to specific groups of people, as its main digital-ad rival Google did in November to fight misinformation.
Facebook refuses to restrict untruthful political ads and micro-targeting
Neither will it ban political ads outright, as Twitter did last October. And it still will not factcheck them, as it’s faced pressure to do.
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