CNN chief Jeff Zucker says Facebook's policy not to monitor political ads for truth-telling is ludicrous and advised the social media giant to sit out the 2020 election until it can figure out something better. Zucker called the policy "absolutely ludicrous" and that Facebook should be called out on it. "Given what happened in 2016, maybe they should just sit it out and not take any political ads until they figure it out," he said. Facebook has a program with third-party fact-checkers including The Associated Press, but the company has said political ads are exempt from its fact-checking operation. Zucker had some of his harshest public comments ever about Fox, saying "I don't think it's a journalistic operation."

Source: ABC News October 24, 2019 19:02 UTC