Google US Presidential Elections Election-related Advertising Suspended After Voting September 27, 8:21
Google, a major IT company in the United States, has decided to suspend the posting of advertisements related to election results after the voting for the US presidential election in November.
As the number of postal votes increases, it may take longer to find out the results, so it seems that the aim is to prevent the confusion from spreading with uncertain information.
In the US presidential election held on November 3, media and others have pointed out that it may take time to find out the result due to the increase in postal voting to prevent the infection of the new coronavirus.
Based on this, Google, a major IT company, has decided to suspend the posting of advertisements related to election results etc. by the 26th after the voting of the presidential election is over.
Google seems to be aiming to prevent confusion from uncertain information about election results.
Regarding the presidential election, Twitter has already announced a policy to display or remove warning labels on posts that claim that the vote has been tampered with without showing evidence.
Facebook is also stepping up measures to prevent confusion by major IT companies, such as deciding not to allow new political ads from candidates and camps to appear one week before the election day.