Facebook's new policy for US presidential elections


Social contacts website Facebook has announced its new policy for the US Elections for 2020. Facebook says it has learned lessons from mistakes in the 2016 election that they won't repeat in the next presidential election





Facebook issued a press release Monday saying that several measures will be taken to secure the US elections. So that no one can cheat anyone through their platform. Facebook has said that the new policy will require the verification process of its owner for ads and different Facebook pages. That is, every Facebook page that has a majority of users will be American. The owner of this page must also disclose his identity.





In addition, under the new policy, the Facebook administration will identify pages of the media agencies that run the full or partial government of any country.





Facebook has said it will also verify information and content released on Facebook through free sources. If a notification or message is found to be complete or partially false and false, Facebook will warn its users through a 'pop-up message'. While misleading information will also be removed from the Newsfeed.





The Facebook administration has also shut down four pages and groups on Instagram and Facebook, according to the press release. Those who were running for the leadership of different governments and were involved in inappropriate behavior. Three of them were being run from Iran while one was running from Russia.





The fee said it also shut down 50 networks that were jointly involved in 'inappropriate behavior'. Many of these networks were working on the upcoming elections in the United States. Facebook has said it is working to prevent "inappropriate behavior".





Facebook has praised inappropriate behavior, for making fraud, organization or its activities more popular than its originality, to hide the identity of an organization through a campaign.





The Facebook administration was heavily criticized after the 2016 US election scandal that exposed Facebook's serious indiscipline scandal in 2018.


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