How Is Facebook Safeguarding Its Platform ahead of Elections?

Facebook (FB) has reportedly announced that it is banning misinformation on voting methods on its platform ahead of the US mid-term elections in November in an effort to combat the voter suppression and false news issues that came up during the 2016 US presidential election. Facebook has been trying to help users directly communicate problems of voter suppression to Facebook fact checkers. Facebook has announced that any sort of voting suppression like the spread of false news by saying that polling places are closed or facing violence would be handled and checked by the company’s third-party fact checkers.