Joe Biden also charges against social networks and accuses Facebook of blocking his ads | 2020 US Elections

It is being an electoral campaign marked by controversy with social networks in the United States, increasingly important but never as protagonists as until now. Trump’s confrontations with the networks have been notorious after some episodes of censorship, but now it is Biden who slides the shadow of doubt, in this case, against Facebook.The electoral campaign of the former vice president of the United States and Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, attacked Facebook this Friday for blocking thousands of ads just five days before the elections. The ads in question, as reported by the campaign in a statement, have been withdrawn since Tuesday, which has cost of half a million dollars in donations that would have been invested in vain, according to information from the newspaper ‘Politico’. As they have explained, said advertisements would have been mistakenly withdrawn since they already had the necessary approval to be disseminated through the social network, which decided on Monday to reduce and limit misinformation in relation to the elections through its platform. Facebook’s new policy, however, has provoked criticism for leading to a “technical failure” that led to the removal of ads, which in turn has affected the campaign of the current president and Republican candidate, Donald Trump. In a message, Facebook has indicated that “despite the fact that the majority of advertisements have not been affected since the restriction came into force, a series of problems have been identified that affect the campaigns of both political parties ”.It has also specified that some of these problems are technical, while others have occurred because advertisers “have not understood the instructions given by Facebook on when and how to make the necessary changes.” “We understand that at this time of the campaign is essential “, has indicated Facebook, which has ensured that” its team is working to solve the problems as soon as possible.