Facebook has floated limiting political ads and labeling they aren’t fact-checked, riling 2020 campaigns

In an interview with CNBC, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said all ads on Snapchat — including political ads — are subject to fact-checking and review. Snap's policy puts it somewhere between Facebook, which doesn't fact-check political ads, and Twitter...

The last few weeks have been especially tumultuous for Facebook. The latest issue concerns political advertising on Facebook, and Facebook's policy not to fact-check that advertising. "Facebook exempts politicians from our third-party fact-checking...

Facebook has the largest reach of any social network in the world, with over 2 billion users. The size of Facebook's ad network has led to issues of fake news. And while the company has made efforts to fact-check some posts on the platform, Facebook...

Katie Couric questioned Sheryl Sandberg about Facebook's policy regarding political ads at the Vanity Fair New Establishment summit on Tuesday. Last month, Facebook announced that it would not fact-check political ads on the platform. Since then...

Facebook got negative press earlier this month after letting Donald Trump run an ad containing false statements about Joe Biden. A Facebook spokesman said political ads are not subject to third-party fact-checking, but ads from brands and ordinary...

An LGBTQ health center says it tried to run ads on Facebook promoting HIV prevention, but that Facebook initially blocked the ads because it determined they were about "social issues, elections, or politics." Apicha Community Health Center was told by...

Since Facebook began tracking and publicly reporting which pages pay for political ads in May 2018, more than $887 million has been spent on Facebook ads about social issues, elections, or politics. Of the 18 biggest spenders on Facebook during that...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is increasing transparency about ads after Facebook received backlash for allowing political ads with false claims. CNET senior producer Dan Patterson joined CBSN with more on what Facebook is doing ahead...

On Friday's broadcast of HBO's "Real Time," host Bill Maher defended Facebook refusing to fact-check political ads by stating he doesn't want "political | Clips

Even as its executives were out fiercely defending its policies on political ads this month, Facebook was allowing an obviously fake page that purported to be linked to President Trump's reelection campaign to run ads on its platform. The ads directed...