Facebook has stopped paying commission to staff for selling political advertisements on its platform, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Facebook is now making changes to how it approaches political ad sales as it prepares for the 2020 presidential race. The company has stopped paying commission for political ad sales, Facebook's global elections public policy director Katie Harbath told the Journal, reducing pressure on sales staff to push for more spending in that area.
Still, it doesn't take long for misinformation to spread when it falls through the cracks. The Oxford Internet Institute this week that found stories with "deliberately misleading, deceptive or incorrect information" in the run-up to the EU elections received four times the engagement as content from mainstream outlets.
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