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These changes apply to ads across Facebook and Instagram, and are effective immediately (3/3)

— Rob Leathern (@robleathern) September 30, 2020

The company has also implemented other measures since the 2016 election, including a political ad database, which gives some transparency as to who is spending money on the platform. There have also been new rules in terms of the nature of content that can be hosted on the platform, particularly in relation to information about COVID-19, but Facebook did not comment on the main complaint of this new oversight committee -- that these rules are not implemented effectively.

\"What use are terms of service, if they don't serve any purpose?\" said Greenblatt.

Twitter banned all political advertising on its platform last year.

ABC News' Catherine Thorbecke contributed to this report.

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