U.S. election results will require additional time
this year because of expanded mail-in ballots
due to the pandemic.
Also banned are advertisements portraying
voting or census participation as meaningless
and advising people not to take part.
The Trump administration has been trying to
end the 2020 U.S. census early, as part of what
opponents say is a strategy to enhance the
political power of Republicans and non-Hispanic
whites by undercounting minorities and others in
hard-to-count communities. The census numbers
are used to decide how many congressional seats
each state gets for the next decade.
Facebook had already unveiled a raft of
measures this month to prevent its platform
from being used to sow chaos and spread
misinformation before, during and after the
U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3. Last week
it banned ads that prematurely declared an
election victory. Before that, it said would restrict
new political ads in the week before the election
and remove posts that convey misinformation
about COVID-19 and voting.