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Google says Will Ban U.S. Election Ads After November 3rd
Alphabet's Google will ban election advertisements on its website after the US election on November 3, the company's spokeswoman said on Friday.
Axios, which first published the news, said Google mailed advertisers saying they would not be able to run advertisements referencing candidates, the election, or its result, given that an enormous number of votes will be counted after election day this year.
Social media firms have been under-pressure to avoid distributing advertising that spread misleading information and could manipulate election results.
Facebook has said that it will stop allowing new political advertisements in the week before the election, and will reject advertising that claim victory before the election results are announced.
Last year, Twitter prohibited political advertising, although Google has previously restricted the way in which election advertisers could turn out to be micro-target voters.
Google's new policy would target ads that are specifically election-related as well as any other form of ads that refer to federal or state elections, or ads that run on the basis of election-related search queries, Axios said.
