Facebook plans to thwart election ad fraud with postcards

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Facebook plans to thwart election ad fraud with postcardsIn an effort to prevent foreign actors from surreptitiously manipulating audiences with ads concerning US elections, Facebook will send postcards in the mail to verify advertisers’ presence in the country, reports Reuters. Katie Harbath, Facebook’s global director of policy programs, said that the plan will go into effect before the Congressional midterm elections in November. The idea is that if your ad mentions a candidate in the running, you’ll receive a postcard sent to your address stateside with a code that you’ll have to authenticate with. That’s an interesting choice for a security practice to prevent election funding by foreign…

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Facebook will be using U.S. postcards to verify ID and location of people who want to buy election-related advertising. This is in response to criticism of failing to detect Russia's use of the site to spread political disinformation in the 2016 election. The plans were revealed after Robert Mueller...

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