The Conservative Party spent millions on Facebook ads during the UK general election. The announcement came after its bigger rival Facebook ruled out the possibility of banning political ads on its own social network. By contrast, First Draft said that none of the Facebook ads posted by Labour over the same four-day period contained misleading claims. In other words, the Conservatives' social media election strategy involved subjecting hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of voters to false ad after false ad. But regardless of how true this is, the fact that Facebook refuses to fact-check political ads does not reflect well on the social network.

Source: Forbes December 14, 2019 11:48 UTC