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Facebook will stop guns accessories advertising until at least January 22nd.
Facebook has revised its Inauguration Day plans to include a provisional ban on advertisement that supports firearms hardware and security devices at least until January 22nd out of abundance of caution, the firm said in a new blog post Saturday. They also forbid advertisements for guns, ammo and firearm upgrades like silencers. But now we're still going to ban advertisements for items like weapons safes, jackets and gun holders in the US, reads the text.
The ban comes after Facebook was blamed for encouraging posts across its sites to support and coordinate the deadly 6th January attack on the Capitol Building.
Combat equipment advertisements, such as body armour and gun holders, ran beside Facebook and Instagram reports about the Capitol uprising, which included calls for violence, as first reported by BuzzFeed News,
A group of U.S. senators wrote a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, asking the organization to create and enforce a platform on Facebook that permanently bans promotion of goods... It is mainly intended for use in deadly operational and armed military operations.
Facebook has tightened its rules in the light of the fear that there could be more unrest in the nation's capital before the inauguration on 20 January. The company says that it would not encourage users to establish activities that take place in close proximity to the White House, the Capitol, or State Capital Buildings through Opening Day. Facebook has said that it was carrying out a secondary review of all inauguration-related activities produced on its website and that it would ban any event that violated its laws.
