Facebook says it rejected 2.2m ads seeking to
obstruct voting in US election
Nick Clegg, Facebook vice president, says social media
giant also attached false information warnings to 150m posts
Agence
France-Presse
Sun 18 Oct
2020 02.44 BST
Facebook
vice president Nick Clegg said had the company had withdrawn 120,000 posts
relating to the US election.
A total of
2.2m ads on Facebook and Instagram have been rejected and 120,000 posts
withdrawn for attempting to “obstruct voting” in the upcoming US presidential
election, Facebook’s vice president Nick Clegg has said.
In
addition, warnings were posted on 150m examples of false information posted
online, the former British deputy prime minister told French weekly Journal du
Dimanche on Sunday.
Facebook
has been increasing its efforts to avoid a repeat of events leading up to the
2016 US presidential election, won by Donald Trump, when its network was used
for attempts at voter manipulation, carried out from Russia.
There were
similar problems ahead of Britain’s 2016 referendum on leaving the European
Union.
“Thirty-five
thousand employees take care of the security of our platforms and contribute
for elections,” said Clegg, who is vice president of global affairs and
communications at Facebook.
“We have
established partnerships with 70 specialised media, including five in France,
on the verification of information”, he added. AFP is one of those partners.
Clegg added
that the company also uses artificial intelligence that has “made it possible
to delete billions of posts and fake accounts, even before they are reported by
users”.
Facebook
also stores all advertisements and information on their funding and provenance
for seven years “to ensure transparency,” he said.
In 2016,
while he was still deputy prime minister, Clegg complained to the Journal du
Dimanche that Facebook had not identified or suppressed a single foreign
network interfering in the US election.
On
Wednesday, Trump rebuked Facebook and Twitter for blocking links to a New York
Post article purporting to expose corrupt dealings by election rival Joe Biden
and his son Hunter in Ukraine.
A day
earlier Facebook announced a ban on ads that discourage people from getting
vaccinated, in light of the coronavirus pandemic which the social media giant
said has “highlighted the importance of preventive health behaviours”.
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