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They'll also have to show who pays for the ads. "Today's updates are created to prevent future abuse in elections", said Facebook ad executives Rob Goldman and Alex Himel in a separate post. Moscow has denied the allegations.
In order to prevent election interference on its platform, Facebook has introduced new changes to increase transparency and accountability for electoral ads and Pages.
"This work has not progressed past the planning phase, and we have not received, shared, or analysed anyone's data", a Facebook spokesperson told.In the wake of the Cambridge Analyticadata breach, Facebook has reportedly suspended a research project where the social media giant was in touch with several major United States hospitals to collect data about their patients.
"Any advertiser who doesn't pass will be prohibited from running political or issue ads", Zuckerberg wrote. "We made mistakes and I own them and they are on me".
In February, U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged 13 Russians and three Russian companies with interfering in the election by sowing discord on social media.
The social media site will now require advertisers to verify their identity and location.
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Verition Fund Management LLC Has $450000 Holdings in Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD)
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Joe Rogan reacts to Conor McGregor bus incident
Conor McGregor's manager Audie Attar has released a statement following the Dubliner's appearance in court in NY yesterday. On the video, the former UFC champion can be seen smashing the windows of a bus full of rival MMA fighters .
A Facebook statement said: "Last year Facebook began discussions with leading medical institutions to explore whether scientific research using anonymised Facebook data could help the medical community advance our understanding in this area". That expands an earlier plan to require such verification for ads directly about elections.
AggregateIQ was not immediately available for a comment.
The Senate legislation has one Republican sponsor, Senator John McCain.
Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify before congressional committees in April.
Under the Honest Ads Act, digital platforms with at least 50 million monthly views would need to maintain a public file of all electioneering communications purchased by anyone spending more than $500.
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