Census disinformation: Facebook details efforts to prepare for 2020 elections
Facebook plans to ban misinformation about the 2020 Census as well as a range of disruptive information about the elections. The company is also making a public, searchable database of all jobs and credit ads listed on its platform. The announcements come as part of a civil rights audit into Facebook’s practices.
Facebook is banning misinformation about the 2020 Census and elections as it updates it policies to deal with online trolls and other bad actors.
In a report released over the weekend, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg detailed a number of steps it’s taking to secure the 2020 elections. The company is banning ads that tell people not to vote and last year banned a range of “misinformation” on voting, including posts that misrepresent when, where or how to vote or threaten violence relating to voting or an election, it said.
