Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmid criticism over Facebook’s policy to not fact-check political ads, the social giant is giving users a new option: They can choose to disable political advertising.Facebook announced the new feature as it touted the launch of a new U.S.
voter-registration drive — under which it hopes to sign up 4 million voters this year using Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.
That’s double the estimated 2 million people Facebook says it helped register in both 2018 and 2016.Starting Wednesday, some Facebook and Instagram users in the U.S.
will be able to “turn off all social issue, electoral or political ads from candidates, Super PACs or other organizations that have the ‘Paid for by’ political disclaimer on them,”.
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