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Facebook to let users turn off political adverts:
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says users will be able to turn off political adverts on the social network in the run-up to the 2020 US election.
In a piece written for USA Today newspaper, he also says he hopes to help four million Americans sign up as new voters.
Facebook has faced heavy criticism for allowing adverts from politicians that contain false information.
Rival social platform Twitter banned political advertising last October.
"For those of you who've already made up your minds and just want the election to be over, we hear you -- so we're also introducing the ability to turn off seeing political ads," Mr Zuckerberg wrote.
Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram will give users the option to turn off political adverts when they appear or they can block them using the settings features.
Users that have blocked political adverts will also be able to report them if they continue to appear.
The feature, which will start rolling out on Wednesday, allows users to turn off political, electoral and social issue adverts from candidates and other organisations that have the "Paid for" political disclaimer.
The company said it plans to make the feature available to all US users over the next few weeks and will offer it in other countries this autumn.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2020, @10:39PM (2 children)
Oh cool do they stop the web bugs and cookies on pretty much every website out there?
You have an account if you want one or not. There is no opt out. At best you can stunt it with an adblocker and/or javascript blocker. At least until google and Mozilla decide https only and dns over https only and plugins are 'problematic'.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2020, @07:25AM (1 child)
Pssh, just recompile with your own CA and set up the net that YOU trust.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2020, @02:39PM
Or use GNU IceCat instead, until we form a new standards body that is controlled by tech workers, not the bosses.
- No to living "standards."
- Against corporate control.
- For meaningful, concrete standards.
- For diversity of rendering engines.
But that probably sounds too much like OMG brown-shirted, chair-throwing, toejam-eating socialism to this lot. Keep deepthroating that corporate cock. Alphabet DBA Google Chrome is capitalist software at its best!