TO CURB POST-ELECTION MISINFORMATION, FACEBOOK PLANS TO HALT ITS POLITICAL AD SECTION

Highlights –

• To curb post-election misinformation, Facebook plans to halt its political ad section.
• Last year, Twitter had also banned political ads.
• Twitter in recent months has placed fact-checking and warning labels on tweets from President Trump.
• Facebook started labeling all posts and ads about voting with links to authoritative information.

As el....