Facebook rejects 2.2 million 'voting-blocking ads' in US presidential election

Facebook has announced that it has rejected 2.2 million ads that 'block votes' in the 2020 United States presidential election , which is scheduled to take place in March 2020 .

Facebook says it rejected 2.2m ads seeking to obstruct voting in US election | Facebook | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/18/facebook-says-it-rejected-22m-ads-seeking-to-obstruct-voting-in-us-election

Facebook VP says the platform rejected more than 2 million ads for trying to obstruct voting --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/18/21521685/facebook-clegg-voting-instagram-ads-fact-check-zuckerberg

On October 18, 2020, Facebook's global vice president, Nick Clegg, said, 'Facebook rejected 2.2 million ads and 120,000 posts about ads and posts that interfered with elections. We issued a warning to 150 million cases. '

According to Mr. Craig's explanation, artificial intelligence (AI) is used to judge whether such advertisements and posts are possible, and the posted contents etc. are deleted before being reported to the user. To verify these AI deletions, Facebook has signed partnership agreements with 70 media companies such as AFP, and to ensure transparency, store information such as advertising funds and payment sources for 7 years. Craig said he revised the policy.

In recent years, with the spread of technology, topics related to elections have been posted online, and election campaigns have become active online. However, it has also been found that 'election interference' using these online activities is actively carried out, and in the 2016 United States presidential election , Russian organizations carried out large-scale propaganda work on Facebook, Twitter, etc. It is said that he was going.

Russia's involvement in the US presidential election 'Russia Gate' reached 126 million people, reached 131,000 tweets, and over 1000 videos on YouTube --GIGAZINE

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Online platform companies have taken measures against such election interference toward the presidential election in 2020, and Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have been working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to introduce fake news detection systems and the like. I did.

Google, Microsoft, Wikipedia, etc. cooperate with government to fight 'fake news of presidential election' --GIGAZINE

While Twitter had banned political advertising altogether in 2019, Facebook has adhered to the policy of ' continuing to post political advertising ', but in the 2020 presidential election, 'President The policy has been changed to 'block political ads from a week before the election,' and this announcement is also seen as an appeal that Facebook is tightening regulations on the US presidential election.

Facebook announces 'block political ads a week before presidential election'-GIGAZINE