WASHINGTON - Twitter on Thursday announced new guidelines to clearly mark political ads on its platform as Facebook said it began implementing a policy requiring labeling and verification of identities of those paying for political messages. Facebook said its new policy would be in effect as of Thursday for ads in the United States on Facebook and Instagram. "We will not allow foreign nationals to target political ads to people who are identified as being in the US," a Twitter statement said. The executives said that Facebook debated whether to ban all political ads but decided in the end to keep them with stricter label and verification. Facebook also will be developing a searchable archive of political ads under the new policy.

Source: Bangkok Post May 24, 2018 20:03 UTC