Facebook will ban ads that tell people in US not to vote

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Facebook will ban ads that tell people in US not to vote

According to its second annual Civil Rights Audit.

Facebook Inc will ban ads that discourage people from voting ahead of the 2020 US presidential election, according to its second annual Civil Rights Audit published on Sunday. Facebook pledged to put its new "don't vote" policy prohibition into effect in the fall, before the 2019 US elections on ...

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