Basic checks
Mr Hamill's criticism came days after Facebook's former security chief voiced his own disapproval about the social network's handling of the matter. Alex Stamos said he was "disappointed" that his ex-employer was not even policing whether politicians were deliberately misrepresenting what their rivals were saying. He suggested doing do would be both "non-partisan and helpful". "I would limit... fact-checking to claims about opponents," he explained. "'Mexico will pay for the wall' is up to voters to judge, but a falsifiable claim like 'my opponent is going to be arrested' should be safer to judge." Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has said people should be allowed to form their own judgements about what politicians say in ads By contrast, Twitter opted to ban all political adverts from its platform in October. The company's chief executive Jack Dorsey tweeted that he believed "political message reach should be earned, not bought". More recently, Google chose to limit the extent to which political adverts could be targeted via its tools. Under its revised rules, ads can be directed to users of a certain age, gender and rough location. But campaigns cannot match their own databases of prospective voters with those held by the search giant to make "micro-targeting" possible. In the absence of more defined government regulation, "steps by platforms to reduce risk to democratic and political processes should be welcomed", commented Mr Krasodomski-Jones.Wiped accounts
Facebook has faced greater scrutiny ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, during which it emerged that personal information about millions of the platforms' users had been harvested, with at least some of the data passed on to a political consultancy. Revelations that US-targeted disinformation campaigns had been run by Russian and Iranian groups subsequently caused further concern. Other high-profile figures who have previously deleted their accounts as a consequence include the singer Cher,- the comedian Will Ferrell
- the actor Jim Carrey
- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
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