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Meta to stop all new political advertising in final week before 2022 midterms

Meta said Tuesday it has begun preparing for the midterm elections, including by fighting White supremacists’ interference and by planning to halt political ads in the final week before the November elections.

Meta President Nick Clegg wrote that the social media titan has hundreds of people spread across 40 teams focused on the U.S. midterms. Mr. Clegg is a former U.K. deputy prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats who handles Meta’s interactions with governments around the world.

“Our teams fight both foreign interference and domestic influence operations, and have exposed and disrupted dozens of networks that have attempted to interfere with U.