Cancellation of ads before the US elections

Facebook deputy editor Nick Clegg said in an interview published on Sunday by the daily “Le Gonale de Dimanche” that 2.2 million ads were canceled and 120,000 posts were removed from Facebook and Instagram, due to “an attempt to obstruct participation in the US presidential elections. ” This comes at a time when Facebook has stepped up its efforts for months not to repeat what happened in 2016 when it used its social network in widespread voter manipulation, during the US presidential elections and the Brexit referendum.

Clegg explained that there are “35,000 employees participating in securing our platforms and participating in elections. “We will establish partnerships with 70 specialized media, five of them in France, to verify the information.” He added: “We also have artificial intelligence tools that can remove fake posts and accounts, even before users report them.”
Although Clegg pointed out that the site stores “all advertising and information, its funding and its source for a period of seven years to ensure transparency,” he explained that in 2016 “(the company) did not identify or eliminate any foreign network that interfered In the elections. And between March and September of this year, we removed 30 malicious networks around the world, some of which are targeting the United States. ”
Note that Facebook removed more than 300 accounts and pages on the Facebook and Instagram platforms in early October, after finding a link between them and a marketing company called “Raleigh Forge” that works for the organization “Turning Point USA. “which seeks to mobilize student support for Donald Trump, especially in states that often witness tight election results among presidential candidates, according to Agence France-Presse.