Facebook refuses to restrict untruthful political ads and micro-targeting

Twitter banned political ads outright in October and rival Google limits ad targeting to broad categories

Facebook has decided not to limit how political ads can be targeted to specific groups of people, as its main digital-ad rival Google did in November to fight misinformation.

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