Facebook announced today that it will require any political ads on its platform to state who is paying for the message, and for their identity to be verified, in a bid to curb outside election interference.
"These steps by themselves wont stop all people trying to game the system," Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said. "But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads.
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