With just over a month to go before Americans

head en masse to the polls in an extraordinarily

contentious election, Facebook is expanding

restrictions on political advertising, including

new bans on messages claiming widespread

voter fraud.

New prohibitions laid out in a blog post come

days after President Donald Trump raised the

prospect of mass fraud in the vote-by-mail

process during a debate with Democratic rival

Joe Biden.

Banned ads “would include calling a method of

voting inherently fraudulent or corrupt, or using

isolated incidents of voter fraud to delegitimize

the result of an election,” Rob Leathern,

Facebook’s director of product management,

tweeted. The changes apply to Facebook and

Instagram and are effective immediately, he said.

The ban includes ads that call an election into

question because the result isn’t determined on

the final day of voting. There is a good chance

FACEBOOK

TIGHTENS

POLITICAL AD

BANS AS US

ELECTION NEARS