Facebook failed to block 15 out of 20 ads that contained death threats to election workers, according to a test conducted by researchers.
The probe by Global Witness and New York University’s Cybersecurity for Democracy team discovered that three-fourths of the ads submitted on the day of or the day before the November 8 midterm elections were approved.
“We tested the ability of Meta’s Facebook, Google’s YouTube, and TikTok to enforce their own policies on harmful content,” Global Witness reported.
“We did this by identifying 10 of the worst examples of death threats issued against election workers in the US and then submitting them to the three platforms in the form of advertisements and recording whether the platforms accepted them for publication or not,” it added.
