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Business Matters: Facebook tightens policy on political advertising

Facebook tightens policy on political advertising

04/09/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Facebook tightens policy on political advertising

Facebook won't allow new political ads in the week before the US election in November

Facebook is pledging not to allow new political adverts in the seven days prior to the US election in November; we hear from Graham Brookie who tracks disinformation at the Atlantic Council. The French government has announced $118 billion of spending after the economy shrank by almost 14% between April and June; we hear from David Thesmar, Professor of Financial Economics at MIT Sloan. The English Premier League has terminated a $750m deal with a big Chinese firm, curtailing live matches on the PPTV network. We ask Kieran Maguire, football finance expert at Liverpool University, what's going on. As coronavirus cases in India soar, kites are proving a real morale-booster and they're selling fast as journalist, Romita Saluja in New Delhi explains. Plus, we're joined throughout the programme by Paddy Hirsch, Editor of the NPR podcast the Indicator from Planet Money - he's in Los Angeles and by Jeanette Rodrigues, Bloomberg bureau chief in Mumbai. (Picture of a Facebook Logo by Avishek Das via Getty Images).

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