Google to show who is behind US political ads

“Advertisers will be prohibited from running political ads — electoral or issue-based — until they are authorized.”

Political ads will be marked as such, and include information about who paid for them, according to Facebook.

The social network also added a requirement that pages with large numbers of followers be verified, to make it harder for people to use fake accounts to influence politics.

“We know we were slow to pick up foreign interference in the 2016 US elections,” Goldman and Himel said in the post.

The updates at Facebook were “designed to prevent future abuse in elections,” they explained.