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With tensions rising between President Trump and his Democratic challenger Sen. Joe Biden, Facebook is taking urgent new steps to keep political candidates and their campaigns from using its social media platforms to cast doubt on the election and its outcome. The company said Wednesday that it will ban all political, election and social issue ads after the polls close on Nov. 3 for a week or longer. Google adopted a similar rule two weeks ago. On Election Day, Facebook will notify users of the latest results at the top of news feeds on Facebook and Instagram. If a presidential candidate or party declares victory before the election is called by major media outlets, those posts will be labeled saying the count is still in process. If a winner is declared but contested by a rival candidate or party, those posts will be labeled with the name of the winner. Also on Election Day, Facebook will remove implicit calls to visit polling places to intimidate voters that usemilitarized language such as army or battle. In a debate with Biden last week, Trump urged supporters to turn out at the polls and watch very carefully on Election Day. Facebook and the election: Facebook readying break-glass tools to restrict content if violence erupts after electionFacebook civil rights audit: Audit warns of Trump, voter suppression ahead of presidential electionDemocratic Massachusetts senatorElizabeth Warren called Wednesdays election policy changes "performative. ""The problem isnt the ads themselves. The problem is Facebooks refusal to regulate its ads, change its broken algorithm, or take responsibility for the power its amassed," she tweeted. The latest measures to protect the integrity of the election on Facebook underscore growing concerns about the elections legitimacy among a large swath of Americans of all political persuasions. Many of those concerns are linked to unproven claims raised by Trump, often on social media,
