https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/01/09/facebook-says-politicians-can-still-tell-lies-in-their-online-ads/

Facebook said Thursday that it intends to make no major changes in its policies toward political ads, a decision that will still allow candidates to include lies about their rivals in such advertisements during the current election cycle.

Rob Leathern, Facebook’s director of product management, said that in addition to not fact-checking political ads for truthfulness, the company will continue to allow for microtargeting of political ads. Microtargeting lets advertisers direct their messages at small sections of Facebook users and is seen as a method by which misleading information can be spread across the social network.