If someone wants to post on Facebook for election campaign, the social media will ensure its identity through postcards. A senior official of the company said on Saturday. They will start identifying advertisers' identity in the new system from mid-mid-January in November this year.
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The fact that Russia has influenced the 2016 election in the United States by using advertisements on Facebook has ensured that the country's intelligence agencies
The United States lawmaker, security expert and various observer groups criticized Facebook and other social media for failing to secure and secure the advertising system.
Facebook has announced its new move, one day after formally launching a formal charge against 13 Russian citizens, Robert Mueller, who is in charge of conducting a special investigation to influence the United States election.
Keatie Harbath, director of Facebook's International Policy Division, said, "If you want to advertise for the candidate in the United States election, you will be sent a special code in the postcard. Use that code to prove that you are a US citizen.
He said that in this way all problems will not be solved. However, they are not thinking of modern technology than sending letters to the mail to ensure advertiser identity.
It is illegal to contribute any foreign power to the national, provincial, and local elections in the United States by any means or by any other means.
Robert Müller's complaint was given in detail by how Russian citizens influenced the United States election by advertising anonymity using Facebook.
Although Facebook is not sure when it will start using postcards for electoral advertising, Harbath said that they will start this system before the mid-midterm elections in November.
Earlier in October Facebook had said that they are going to introduce strict rules for political campaign on Facebook.