NYT: Facebook to Require Verified Identities for Future Political Ads
As Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, prepares to testify before Congress, the company also said it supported the proposed Honest Ads Act.
Facebook will now verify the identities of any advertiser who wants to post political ads and those who own large Facebook pages. “These steps by themselves won’t stop all people trying to game the system. 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,” Zuckerberg declared.
