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19:15 EDT Facebook to ban ads telling people in U.S. not to vote - In its second annual Civil Rights Audit published on Sunday, Facebook said it will ban ads that discourage people from voting ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. "We now ban praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism. Today's report recommends we go further to include content that supports white nationalist ideology even if the terms "white nationalism" and "white separatism" aren't explicitly used. We're addressing this by identifying hate slogans and symbols connected to white nationalism and white separatism to better enforce our policy. We also recently updated our policies so Facebook isn't used to organize events that intimidate or harass people based on their race, religion, or other parts of their identity. We now ban posts from people who intend to bring weapons anywhere to intimidate or harass others, or who encourage people to do the same. [...] Our policies have always prohibited advertisers from using our tools to discriminate. In 2018, we went further by removing thousands of categories from targeting related to protected classes such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and religion. But we can do better. As a result of the settlement, we're rolling out updates so anyone who wants to run US housing, employment and credit ads will no longer be allowed to target by age, gender or zip code and will have a much smaller set of targeting categories overall. [...] We're building a team dedicated to these census efforts and introducing a new policy in the fall that protects against misinformation related to the census. [...] To protect elections, we have a team across product, engineering, data science, policy, legal and operations dedicated full time to these efforts. They're already working to ban ads that discourage people from voting, and we expect to finalize a new policy and its enforcement before the 2019 gubernatorial elections," the document reads. Reference Link |
