Presidential elections 2019Facebook restrict the placement of political advertising in Ukraine in connection with the electionPhoto: flickr.com/eston

The company wants to prevent possible interference in the electoral process through social networks

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Facebook will tighten the rules of placing political advertisement in Ukraine, Nigeria and India, in countries where in 2019 elections. About it reports Reuters.

In this way Facebook wants to prevent a possible interference in the electoral process via social media.

Since February in Ukraine and Nigeria to place ads related to election, only advertisers that are directly on the territory of these countries.

“We know we’re not perfect, but our goal is continuous improvement,” said Director of management Facebook Rum Lesern.

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In India, where parliamentary elections will take place in spring 2019 ad will be placed in a special “online library” where it can be found.

We will remind, the Central election Commission at its meeting on 15 January, has registered three more presidential candidates.

At this point, was: the mayor of Lviv, leader of Samopomich Andriy Sadovy, the leader of the party “political movement “Justice” Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, leader of the Social-democratic party Sergey Kaplin, the independent candidate Vitaly Skotsyk, the former Minister of ecology and natural resources Ihor Shevchenko, the leader of the party “Civic position” Anatoly Gritsenko, leader of “Our” Eugene Moore, as well as the people’s Deputy of Ukraine Vitaliy kupriy.

We will remind, presidential elections of Ukraine held on 31 March 2019.