Facebook announced new steps to combat misinformation and voter suppression on Monday ahead of the November 2020 US presidential election, on the same day it disclosed the removal of a network of Russian accounts targeting US voters on Instagram.
Facebook said it would increase transparency through measures such as showing more information about the confirmed owner of a Facebook page and more prominently labelling content that independent fact-checkers have marked as false.
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